George Bush: No Gene Kelly George Bush: No Gene Kelly
When New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd wrote recently that George Bush has "turned into Gene Kelly," she set off a firestorm of protest from fans of the late da...
Mar 20, 2008 / Jon Wiener
Blues for Obama Blues for Obama
Win or lose, whatever happens next, Barack Obama is now established as oneof those rare, courageous teachers who leads the country onto newground. He has given us a way to talk abo...
Mar 19, 2008 / William Greider
Five Years in Iraq: Best of the Media Five Years in Iraq: Best of the Media
Just imagine: You run a flagship national newspaper, the New York Times. It's the fifth anniversary of President Bush's catastrophic invasion of Iraq. Your own record of reporta...
Mar 18, 2008 / TomDispatch
Stop the Next My Lai Stop the Next My Lai
The New York Times saw fit to mark the fifth anniversary of the US invasion by inviting nine "experts" including not one soldier to reflect on the conduct of the war and ...
Mar 17, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Clinton’s Iraq Vote – Five Years Later Clinton’s Iraq Vote – Five Years Later
The fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war provides an appropriate moment to revisit Hillary Clinton's argument in favor of authorizing Bush's use of force, and to contrast...
Mar 17, 2008 / Jon Wiener
The View from Jackson The View from Jackson
I could analyze Senator Barack Obama's Mississippi win all day--and wouldn't that be a kick? But I wouldn't be able to do nearly as provocative a job as Donna Ladd, editor of the h...
Mar 12, 2008 / Bob Moser
How the Spitzer Sex Scandal Could Help Hillary How the Spitzer Sex Scandal Could Help Hillary
A woman president is not going to be Client 9 of the Emperor's Club VIP sex service. A woman president is not going to get arrested for soliciting sex in a rest room at the Minnea...
Mar 11, 2008 / Jon Wiener
The Spitzer Scandal The Spitzer Scandal
For all the sordid and developing details of Eliot Spitzer's rendezvous with a high-priced prostitute, go to TPM's excerpt of the actual prosecutor filings on Temeka Rachelle Lewis...
Mar 10, 2008 / Richard Kim
Facebook: There Will Be Blood Facebook: There Will Be Blood
Can Facebook, the popular social networking site, solve America's blood shortages? Takes All Types, a group billing itself as the first bottom-up blood donor experiment, is tappin...
Mar 10, 2008 / Ari Melber
Hillary Wins; Limbaugh is Laughing Hillary Wins; Limbaugh is Laughing
Tuesday night was a good night for Rush Limbaugh. "I want Hillary to stay in this," he said on Fox News, because "I want the Democrats to lose. They're in the midst ...
Mar 5, 2008 / Jon Wiener