Obama’s Organizing Chief: Supporters Push Sotomayor, Health Care Obama’s Organizing Chief: Supporters Push Sotomayor, Health Care
Speaking to a liberal summit in Washington today, Organizing for America director Mitch Stewart outlined how the DNC is tapping Obama's campaign network to advance the administrati...
Jun 1, 2009 / Ari Melber
The ‘New GM’: Layoffs, Factory Closings, Offshoring The ‘New GM’: Layoffs, Factory Closings, Offshoring
The trouble with the whole "Nixon goes to China" theory -- which is grounded in the calculus that big progress is made when a politician goes against type to address a seemingly i...
Jun 1, 2009 / John Nichols
Corruption and Careful Reading: A Response to George Will Corruption and Careful Reading: A Response to George Will
Last week, George Will spent his Sunday column in the Washington Post attacking an article I recently wrote in the Cornell Law Review. Of course it is gratifying to have an academi...
Jun 1, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout
Obama’s Cairo Speech Obama’s Cairo Speech
It's a mistake to see President Obama's June 4 speech in Cairo merely as a repudiation of George W. Bush's wrecking-ball approach to the Middle East. It's certainly true that dur...
Jun 1, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Eduardo Galeano: Stories of Almost Everyone Eduardo Galeano: Stories of Almost Everyone
Why are so many people so scared? Maybe it's because of our rulers' enormous 'fear machine.' So says Eduardo Galeano, in this rare interview.
Jun 1, 2009 / GRITtv
George Tiller’s Assassination George Tiller’s Assassination
Dr. George Tiller, an outspoken advocate for abortion rights and one of the few late-term abortion providers in the country, was shot dead in church yesterday morning in Wichita, ...
Jun 1, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Sotomayor’s Seditious Syllables Sotomayor’s Seditious Syllables
Of all the comically desperate attacks on Supreme Court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor last week--she belongs to the "Latino KKK" (Tom Tancredo), she's a "Hispanic ...
Jun 1, 2009 / Leslie Savan
A Killing in Kansas A Killing in Kansas
Prochoice groups declared Monday a national day of mourning following the murder of Dr. George Tiller, a provider of late-term abortions who was long a target of antiabortion zealo...
May 31, 2009 / Feature / John Nichols
Newt Gingrich Reaches His ‘Sell-By’ Date Newt Gingrich Reaches His ‘Sell-By’ Date
It is always difficult to pinpoint the precise moment when a politician reaches his "sell-by" date. We have seen some remarkable comebacks in America. Richard Nixon, defeated fo...
May 31, 2009 / John Nichols
Time Will Justify Our Strength Time Will Justify Our Strength
At a moment when our country stands at a potentially transformative political moment--an opportunity to realize the ideal of a nation governed by the rule of law, the Massachusett...
May 30, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel