Guest Opinion | Wednesday, January 28,2009

Muslims, the Americans are not your enemy

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 t

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, July 2,2008

A blank check for war

Democrats — good for platitudes, little more

By John Nichols

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 f

Feature | Wednesday, June 4,2008

Who'll unplug big media? Stay tuned...

Yes, there would be a world of difference between President Obama and President McCain

By John Nichols

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 s

Politics | Wednesday, May 28,2008

His GOP appeal

Republican crossovers could make Obama the next president

By John Nichols

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 “dittohead

Politics | Wednesday, February 20,2008

Obamanomics

The senator from Illinois is sounding more and more progressive on trade

By John Nichols

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

Feature | Thursday, February 3,2005

Bush fighter

By John Nichols

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