As he dispatched former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, his new special envoy for Middle East peace, to the region, President Obama gave his first television interview on Monday to the Dubai-based satellite network al-Arabiya. Obama chose the vehicle of a network that is widely viewed in the Arab and Muslim world to make a […]
John Nichols
John Nichols is the Washington correspondent of The Nation, a weekly based in New York City, and editor of the editorial page of the Capital Times of Madison, Wis. Reprinted with permission from the Feb. 14, 2005 issue of The Nation, www.thenation.com
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A blank check for war
Untitled Document President George W. Bush, who has never chosen to take responsibility for addressing the mess he created in Iraq, has now been given permission by Congress to finish his presidency without doing so. After the U.S. House voted 268-155 to provide $162 billion in additional “emergency” funding for the Iraq war on June […]
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Who’ll unplug big media? Stay tuned…
Untitled Document On a Thursday in mid-May, the U.S. Senate did something that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Led by Democrat Byron Dorgan, the senators — Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives — gave Rupert Murdoch and his fellow media moguls the sort of slap that masters of the universe don’t expect from […]
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His GOP appeal
Untitled Document Rush Limbaugh and some myopic Democrats would have us believe that most if not all Republicans who have been voting in Democratic primaries are “dittoheads” implementing the radio host’s “Operation Chaos.” Limbaugh has promoted his scheme for months, encouraging Republican listeners to reregister and vote in Democratic contests for the presumably weaker candidate, […]
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Obamanomics
Untitled Document JANESVILLE, Wis. — When I talked with U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold about what the Democratic candidates for president needed to do to win the Wisconsin primary, he suggested that both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton go to the senator’s hometown of Janesville and talk about trade. Obama got the hint. On the first […]
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Bush fighter
When Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen, perhaps President George W. Bush’s most corporately compromised judicial nominee, appeared early in 2003 before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the most devastating line of questioning she faced did not come from one of the big-name inquisitors on a committee that includes a Kennedy, a Biden, and a Leahy. […]
