The Democratic National Committee’s platform committee approved a draft of the party’s 2020 agenda this week and committee cochair Denis McDonough promptly described it as the “boldest Democratic platform in American history.” It’s not.
John Nichols
John Nichols is national correspondent for The Nation. A co-founder of the media reform organization Free Press, he is the author of Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America, forthcoming from Nation Books this fall, and co-author with Robert W. McChesney of The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again; Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy; and People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizeness Democracy, published in March 2016 by Nation Books. Follow him on Twitter: @NicholsUprising.
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May 14, 2020Here’s the plan Congress must include in stimulus measures to provide muscular support for journalism.
November 27, 2017“This naked corporatism is Washington at its worst,” says former FCC commissioner Michael Copps.
September 26, 2017He’s stoking racial divisions in order to maintain a grip on a Senate seat that Democrats are surprisingly competitive for.
August 29, 2017In mid-August, the administration moved to gut a necessary initiative to guarantee the flood resilience of infrastructure.
August 24, 2017As the venerable weekly newspaper ceases print publication, let us hope that its brilliantly belligerent journalistic legacy lives on.
July 11, 2017The opposition party should embrace a sweeping reform agenda that embraces the promise of voting rights, competitive elections and genuinely representative democracy.
June 8, 2017A tech-savvy measure introduced by members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus would protect against cyber meddling.
May 30, 2017“When people in power invent their own facts and attack those who question them, it can mark the beginning of the end of a free society.”
May 4, 2017A fresh model for economic and social-justice politics is emerging in the South.
