Bush Erects Another Stonewall Against Accountability Bush Erects Another Stonewall Against Accountability
Barely a week after he commuted the 30-month sentence of a former White House insider who was convicted of engaging in felonious attempts to thwart investigations of administratio...
Jul 9, 2007 / John Nichols
An Old Radical Response to a Newly Radical Court An Old Radical Response to a Newly Radical Court
As the Bush-Cheney administration enters its final 18 months, the White House is getting competition from the U.S. Supreme Court for status as greatest threat to the Constitution ...
Jul 8, 2007 / John Nichols
Tom Paine’s 4th of July Advice for Congress Tom Paine’s 4th of July Advice for Congress
The Fourth of July ought surely, and above all else, to be a celebration of Tom Paine's resolve. As the American colonies moved tentatively toward the fateful declaration of inde...
Jul 4, 2007 / John Nichols
Bush: Pardon for Libby Remains on the Table Bush: Pardon for Libby Remains on the Table
Prospective Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson and a few others on the extreme fringe of the lawless right have complained that George Bush was insufficiently generous...
Jul 3, 2007 / John Nichols
Jackson: Impeachment Is the Right Response Jackson: Impeachment Is the Right Response
Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., a member of the House of Representatives so Constitutionally-minded that he wrote a book on the subject, responded as a founding father wou...
Jul 3, 2007 / John Nichols
To the Courts, Then, on Behalf of the Constitution! To the Courts, Then, on Behalf of the Constitution!
The founder of the Republic, conscious of the excesses that resulted when King George III and his Parliament cooperated, endeavored to put the legislative and executive branches o...
Jul 2, 2007 / John Nichols
Another World Is Possible; Another U.S.A. is Necessary Another World Is Possible; Another U.S.A. is Necessary
ATLANTA -- The political discussion in the United States is, for the most part, disappointing -- not merely because it is too ideologically and intellectually narrow but also beca...
Jun 30, 2007 / John Nichols
Contempt of Congress Contempt of Congress
No one was all that surprised when the Bush administration announced Thursday that it would not cooperate with congressional demands for documents and testimony by prominent forme...
Jun 28, 2007 / John Nichols
Senate Subpoenas Cheney, White House Documents on Spying Senate Subpoenas Cheney, White House Documents on Spying
After putting up with months of stonewalling by President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their aides, the Senate Judiciary Committee has issued subpoenas seeking information about...
Jun 27, 2007 / John Nichols
Feingold on Cheney: “I Think He’s Confused.” Feingold on Cheney: “I Think He’s Confused.”
Along with venerable West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, Russ Feingold enjoys the relatively lonely distinction in the current Congress of having demonstrated something more than a...
Jun 27, 2007 / John Nichols