Blair’s Crisis, Bush’s Crisis Blair’s Crisis, Bush’s Crisis
Only hours after British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a cheering US Congress that history would forgive the United States and Great Britain for using dubious data to make the ca...
Jul 19, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Checks and Balances Anyone? Checks and Balances Anyone?
When it was proposed during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that the sole power "to make war" be vested in the Congress, the measure carried overwhelmingly. Only one delegat...
Jul 10, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Bottom of the Ninth on Capitol Hill Bottom of the Ninth on Capitol Hill
The American people have already changed the character of the debate over media consolidation and monopoly. Now, they may well be on the verge of winning a historically unpreceden...
Jul 8, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Early Returns Early Returns
More people voted in the wwww.MoveOn.org PAC online presidential primary than are expected to participate in next January's Democratic caucuses in Iowa and t
Jul 2, 2003 / Editorial / John Nichols
Dean, Kucinich, Kerry Top MoveOn Vote Dean, Kucinich, Kerry Top MoveOn Vote
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean's scored another publicity coup this week, finishing a solid first in the MoveOn.org PAC online primary that became a high-stakes test of the a...
Jun 27, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Moving on Media Reform Moving on Media Reform
It's no secret that Washington has a limited interest in the public interest these days.
Jun 26, 2003 / Editorial / John Nichols
Judge Resigns Over Congressional Meddling Judge Resigns Over Congressional Meddling
The announcement this week by U.S. District Judge John S. Martin of the Southern District of New York that he would leave the bench because he was fed up with Congressional meddli...
Jun 25, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Senate Committee Rebukes FCC Senate Committee Rebukes FCC
When the Federal Communications Commission voted June 2 to remove key restrictions on media consolidation, dissident Commissioner Michael Copps warned, "This Commission's drive to...
Jun 19, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Making Media an Issue Making Media an Issue
MILWAUKEE -- When Democratic party activists from across Wisconsin gathered for their party's state convention last weekend, they heard speeches from three presidential candidates...
Jun 16, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Bill Moyers’s Presidential Address Bill Moyers’s Presidential Address
Democratic presidential candidates were handed a dream audience of 1,000 "ready-for-action" labor, civil rights, peace and economic justice campaigners at the Take Back America co...
Jun 9, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols