Candidates Look for the Union Label Candidates Look for the Union Label
On Labor Day, the starting point for the mad rush to this winter's Democratic presidential caucuses and primaries, several of the Democratic contenders could point to support they...
Sep 1, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
FCC is Feeling the Heat FCC is Feeling the Heat
Faced with a national outcry so intense that Congress is moving to reverse his attempt to eliminate controls on media consolidation and monopoly, Federal Communications Commission...
Aug 21, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Bogus Blair, Bogus Bush Bogus Blair, Bogus Bush
The headline in Tuesday's editions of London's Guardian newspaper read: "No. 10 knew: Iraq no threat." The headline in London's Daily Mirror shouted: "NO THREAT -- Revealed: Emai...
Aug 19, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
For Democrats, Mr. Right is Mr. Wrong For Democrats, Mr. Right is Mr. Wrong
Anyone who has spent time on the 2004 Democratic presidential campaign trail is familiar with the phrase "Except Lieberman." When grassroots Democrats gather to talk about the cro...
Aug 5, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
The Heat Is On The Heat Is On
As questions grow, so does bush's vulnerability.
Jul 31, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols
Congress Rebuffs the FCC Congress Rebuffs the FCC
The revolution may, in fact, be televised--and on C-Span, no less.
Jul 31, 2003 / Editorial / John Nichols
Media Giants Get Slapped Media Giants Get Slapped
In an unprecedented rebuff to the agenda of big media, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved by a 400-21 vote an appropriations bill that includes languarge blocking ...
Jul 23, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
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