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Carl Bernstein: Bush More “Disastrous” Than Nixon Carl Bernstein: Bush More “Disastrous” Than Nixon

Carl Bernstein will always be known as the journalist who brought down a president whose disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law disqualified the errant executive from ...

Aug 8, 2007 / John Nichols

Defend Dr. Tiller Defend Dr. Tiller

Dr. George Tiller, one of the few late-term abortion providers in the US, pleaded not guilty last Friday to 19 misdemeanor charges brought against him by the state of Kansas. Th...

Aug 7, 2007 / Peter Rothberg

The Divider The Divider

When asked by George Stephanopoulos in the Sunday Republican debate to list his mistakes, Rudy Giuliani replied, "George, your father is a priest. I can explain it to your father,...

Aug 7, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

An Overwhelming Vote for Waste, Earmarks and Corruption An Overwhelming Vote for Waste, Earmarks and Corruption

In a Congress where it has become fashionable to gripe about earmarks of a few hundred thousand dollars to pay for small-town museums and urban parks – and, until last week, for...

Aug 5, 2007 / John Nichols

Blogging While Female Blogging While Female

So far today I've watched Hillary Clinton take unscripted questions in a small room, seen Barack Obama wow a separate crowd of inquisitors, had Mike Gravel smartly answer somethin...

Aug 5, 2007 / Peter Rothberg

Lieberman v. Feingold and the Constitution Lieberman v. Feingold and the Constitution

During Friday's debate in the US Senate on various proposals to alter the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Connecticut's sort-of-Democrat, sort-of-Independent, but always lo...

Aug 4, 2007 / John Nichols

Exposing Block & Blame Conservatives Exposing Block & Blame Conservatives

No progress on ending the war. No advances on new energy policy. No movement on health care costs. Why is Congress gridlocked? There has been much smart debate over this vexing ...

Aug 4, 2007 / Peter Rothberg

When a Government Won’t Own Up When a Government Won’t Own Up

Rescue and cleanup workers, who put their lives on the line in our nation's darkest hour, weren't given information about environmental risks and are now paying the price with fin...

Aug 2, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Broken Bridges, Lost Levees and a Brutal Culture of Neglect Broken Bridges, Lost Levees and a Brutal Culture of Neglect

As rescue workers continued to pull bodies out of the stretch of the Mississippi River that runs beneath the collapsed I-35W bridge in Minneapolis Thursday, U.S. Transportation Se...

Aug 2, 2007 / John Nichols

Worse Than You Think Worse Than You Think

The non-stop violence in Iraq is overshadowing a humanitarian crisis, with eight million Iraqis--nearly one in three--in need of emergency aid, says a new report released by the i...

Jul 31, 2007 / Peter Rothberg

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