A Political Fight Brews Over FCC Rule Changes A Political Fight Brews Over FCC Rule Changes
No matter what the Federal Communications Commission does today with regard to media ownership -- and it is likely to do the wrong thing -- members of Congress are ready to push b...
Dec 18, 2007 / John Nichols
House Judiciary Trio Calls for Impeach Cheney Hearings House Judiciary Trio Calls for Impeach Cheney Hearings
Three senior members of the House Judiciary Committee have called for the immediate opening of impeachment hearings for Vice President Richard Cheney. Democrats Robert Wexler of ...
Dec 14, 2007 / John Nichols
Clinton, Obama, Drugs and the Politics of Cynicism Clinton, Obama, Drugs and the Politics of Cynicism
There are plenty of what might charitably be referred to as "unsavory" characters associated with the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, who tends to attract the seamy poli...
Dec 14, 2007 / John Nichols
Playing the God Card Playing the God Card
It's not Romney's Mormon faith that threatens the core values of a secular nation. It's Huckabee's messianic candidacy.
Dec 13, 2007 / John Nichols
Will Pelosi Get Congress to Give Bush Another $70 Billion in Ira Will Pelosi Get Congress to Give Bush Another $70 Billion in Ira
Just days after it was revealed that she was briefed in 2002 on the use of waterboarding and other torture techniques by U.S. interrogators an raised no objections, House Speaker ...
Dec 11, 2007 / John Nichols
Pelosi and Torture Pelosi and Torture
That House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been a disappointing leader for House Democrats, few serious observers of the congressional condition will deny. But, now, she appears to be so...
Dec 10, 2007 / John Nichols
Governor Romney, You’re No Jack Kennedy Governor Romney, You’re No Jack Kennedy
There was irony in the fact that George Herbert Walker Bush introduced former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's much-anticipated speech on religion and politics. Almost four d...
Dec 6, 2007 / John Nichols
Will Clinton, Obama, Biden and Dodd Show for Key Farm Vote? Will Clinton, Obama, Biden and Dodd Show for Key Farm Vote?
Senators Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd are all running around Iowa telling farmers how much they care about them. But do the Democratic presidential con...
Dec 6, 2007 / John Nichols
Shame on Obama and Clinton for Skipping Peru Trade Vote Shame on Obama and Clinton for Skipping Peru Trade Vote
New York Senator Hillary Clinton and Illinois Senator Barack Obama desperately want Democrats to believe that they are serious about serving the American people as the next presid...
Dec 4, 2007 / John Nichols
Bush Buddy Putin Trumps Democracy, Chavez Embraces It Bush Buddy Putin Trumps Democracy, Chavez Embraces It
So how's George Bush's campaign for to spread his version of "democracy" going? The results are in from the American president's favorite former superpower, the Russian Federatio...
Dec 3, 2007 / John Nichols