Fight for the Filibuster Fight for the Filibuster
Never underestimate the determination of Washington Democrats to try and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Just as it was reported Tuesday that Americans strongly support t...
Apr 26, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
The Vatican’s Enforcer The Vatican’s Enforcer
The Sacred College of Cardinals is supposed to be one of the world's great deliberative bodies. Yet, despite the many challenges faced by the Catholic church, the deliberations r...
Apr 19, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
The Papal Chase The Papal Chase
When hundreds of thousands of global justice campaigners flocked to Genoa in the summer of 2001 to protest at the G-8 summit of major industrialized nations, the found an unlikely...
Apr 17, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
FCC to TV: Tell the Truth FCC to TV: Tell the Truth
Most television viewers don't know it, but a huge portion of what they watch on the local news programs aired by their favorite stations is not actually "news." Rather, local tele...
Apr 14, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
John Bolton vs. Democracy John Bolton vs. Democracy
"I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count." Those were the words John Bolton yelled as he burst into a Tallahassee library on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2000, where ...
Apr 13, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Who’s a ‘Good Catholic’? Who’s a ‘Good Catholic’?
Among the members of Congress who attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II last week was U.S. Rep. David Obey. It would be difficult to identify a more appropriate representativ...
Apr 11, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
The Anti-War Pope The Anti-War Pope
Expect to see a lot of George W. Bush over the next day or so, as he attends the funeral of Pope John Paul II. The White House is going out of its way to hype the fact that Bush i...
Apr 7, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
The Pope’s ‘Seismic Shift’ The Pope’s ‘Seismic Shift’
Many of the most devout followers of the most famous of all victims of capital punishment, the Nazarene who was crucified on the Calvary cross, took a long time to recognize that...
Apr 3, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Now Bush Is Picking on Kids Now Bush Is Picking on Kids
Think of Ann Veneman as the Paul Wolfowitz of food policy. Just as Wolfowitz used his position as the Bush administration's deputy secretary of defense to spin whacked-out neoco...
Mar 27, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Congress Fails to Function Congress Fails to Function
The speed with which the Congress leapt to intervene in the Florida right-to-die case of Terry Schiavo might create the impression that the US House of Representatives is a functi...
Mar 21, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols