If Obama Is JFK, Who Is Hillary? If Obama Is JFK, Who Is Hillary?
Ted Kennedy's statement Monday that Obama was like JFK set off a storm of historical analogies. Hillary's side fired back that she is like Bobby Kennedy--at least that's what three...
Jan 30, 2008 / Jon Wiener
Hillary’s Man Problem Hillary’s Man Problem
A lot of men don't like Hillary. A lot of men say they don't want to vote for Hillary--even Democratic men. The new Los Angeles Times/ Bloomberg poll, released December 28, shows t...
Jan 2, 2008 / Jon Wiener
What Hillary Hasn’t Done in Foreign Policy What Hillary Hasn’t Done in Foreign Policy
During the eight years Hillary was First Lady, she didn't deal with terrorism, Osama bin Laden, or Al Qaeda. She wasn't a decision-maker on any of the other big foreign policy iss...
Dec 27, 2007 / Jon Wiener
The FBI Plan to Round Up 12,000 – in 1950 The FBI Plan to Round Up 12,000 – in 1950
A week after US troops were sent to fight in far-away country, the FBI proposed to the president that 12,000 people be rounded up and detained as "potentially dangerous" ...
Dec 24, 2007 / Jon Wiener
Arguing About Gitmo Arguing About Gitmo
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard arguments in what may be the most important constitutional case of the decade: whether the men detained at Guantanamo have a right to a fair trial...
Dec 6, 2007 / Jon Wiener
Obama and Islam Obama and Islam
Barack Obama represents "the only hope for the US in the Muslim world," according to Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Because Obama's father w...
Nov 16, 2007 / Jon Wiener
Judging Thomas Judging Thomas
A close look at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reveals a deeply conservative and increasingly bitter man.
Nov 8, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Is Hillary the Next Grover Cleveland? Is Hillary the Next Grover Cleveland?
"We hope we're about to elect FDR," New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman told me earlier this week, "but we might be about to elect Grover Cleveland." H...
Nov 1, 2007 / Jon Wiener
Hillary Day at the Nixon Library Hillary Day at the Nixon Library
"Hillary's fear of humiliation, her fear of secrets being revealed, absolutely permeates her life," Carl Bernstein told a packed auditorium at the Nixon Library in Yorba ...
Oct 24, 2007 / Jon Wiener
“[Expletive] the Jews. They Didn’t Vote for Us Anyway” “[Expletive] the Jews. They Didn’t Vote for Us Anyway”
Has George Bush ever been to a bar mitzvah or eaten a blintz? Rudy Giuliani has -- dozens of times. The Bush family has been never been very popular with Jews, but Giuliani won a...
Oct 19, 2007 / Jon Wiener