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The Man Behind the Oval Office Curtain The Man Behind the Oval Office Curtain

It's Cheney's Administration, and it's a shame.

Oct 26, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Mary Cheney, Mary Cheney Mary Cheney, Mary Cheney

Reservists mutiny in Iraq, old people keel over standing in line for flu shots and all sorts of cats leap out of Bush's bag of secrets: According to Ron Suskind's revelatory New ...

Oct 22, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt

You Can’t Blame Nader for This You Can’t Blame Nader for This

Let's hedge this with all the usual qualifiers. Kerry could pull it out. The spread's within the margin of error. Respondents to polls are lying out of fear of John Ashcroft.

Oct 21, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

A President Who Listens To a Higher Authority A President Who Listens To a Higher Authority

He can't remember one mistake. He'll stay on course till Hades freezes. How can he be so certain still? Because he's got the word from Jesus.

Oct 21, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The 9/11 Secret in the CIA’s Back Pocket The 9/11 Secret in the CIA’s Back Pocket

The agency is withholding a damning report that points at senior officials.

Oct 19, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Anchors Aweigh: The Refs Are Worked Anchors Aweigh: The Refs Are Worked

Check out Eric Alterman's new book, When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences, (Viking Penguin). Click here for info and to purchase copies.

Oct 14, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman

A White House Spokesman Explains… A White House Spokesman Explains…

Why the Duelfer Report's Finding That Iraq Had No Weapons of Mass Destruction Provides Justification for Having Attacked Iraq in Order to Rid It of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Oct 14, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Kerry a Bleeding Heart? Hardly Kerry a Bleeding Heart? Hardly

Thank you, George W. Bush, for trying to assure me that John Kerry is a liberal. Wish it were so.

Oct 12, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Bush’s Court Picks: Be Afraid. Very Afraid. Bush’s Court Picks: Be Afraid. Very Afraid.

Democrats haven't made much of what would happen to the courts should Bush win a second term.

Oct 7, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt

‘There Are No Innocents’ ‘There Are No Innocents’

An oppressive and beleaguered empire, a terrorist international, a storm raging in the world press about torture, right-wing Christians on the march against moral decline and the...

Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Cockburn

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