Calling John Roberts’s Bluff Calling John Roberts’s Bluff
John Roberts, the President's nominee to become the seventeenth Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, says that the 1973 high court ruling that guaranteed a woman's right to choo...
Sep 19, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Accountability 101 Accountability 101
Horrified by the realization that a great many Americans see him as an uncaring Herbert Hoover, the president who forgot New Orleans attempted with his address to the nation on Th...
Sep 15, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Winning the Peace Winning the Peace
Antiwar Democrats in Washington are facing a moment of truth: Now is the time to raise the volume on the previously taboo discussion of a real exit strategy from Iraq.
Sep 15, 2005 / Feature / John Nichols
“We Can’t Make It Here” “We Can’t Make It Here”
Last spring, in an attempt to make President Bush appear to be more of a regular guy, the White House released a list of the tunes the commander-in-chief was listening to on his i...
Sep 14, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
“Dignified Process”? “Dignified Process”?
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of John Roberts to serve as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court began with an appropriate message from Wisconsin Senat...
Sep 12, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Hurricane Halliburton Hurricane Halliburton
Having finished the search for a luxury vacation home on the eastern shore of Maryland – which preoccupied him during the critical initial days of what is being called the worst...
Sep 11, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Barbara Bush: It’s Good Enough for the Poor Barbara Bush: It’s Good Enough for the Poor
Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism." On the heels of the president's "What, me worry?" response to the death, destruction and d...
Sep 6, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Denny Hastert’s Dark Calculus Denny Hastert’s Dark Calculus
In 1975, when New York City teetered on the brink of financial default, the refusal of then-President Gerald Ford to back an aid package inspired the famous New York Daily News he...
Sep 3, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
The Real Gas Gougers The Real Gas Gougers
How convenient for the oil industry that Hurricane Katrina hit just before the traditional Labor Day-weekend hike in gas prices. Now, instead of having to fake up some absolutely ...
Sep 1, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Censor Pat Robertson? Censor Pat Robertson?
It appears that the only Americans who are not embarrassed by their associations with Pat Robertson, the former presidential contender and longtime host of the Christian Broadcast...
Aug 29, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols