Brokeback GOP Brokeback GOP
What's up with Republican politicos getting arrested by undercover cops for soliciting sex in public restrooms? First, Florida state representative Bob Allen, formerly John McCain'...
Aug 28, 2007 / Richard Kim
Iraq: “Worst Day Since Vietnam” for Hawaii Iraq: “Worst Day Since Vietnam” for Hawaii
The death of 14 army soldiers in a helicopter crash in northern Iraq on August 23 included ten stationed in Hawaii, making that Hawaii's "worst day . . . since the Vietnam War...
Aug 25, 2007 / Jon Wiener
GOP Attacks John Warner for Failing to Echo George Bush GOP Attacks John Warner for Failing to Echo George Bush
Here is how things work today at the top levels of the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. One of the Republican party's most prominent senators, a fo...
Aug 24, 2007 / John Nichols
Warner Buys Bush Time Warner Buys Bush Time
Senator John Warner's call yesterday for an "orderly and carefully planned withdrawal" from Iraq is being read in Washington as yet another devastating blow to President ...
Aug 24, 2007 / Ari Berman
Bush Versus I.F. Stone… and Eisenhower Bush Versus I.F. Stone… and Eisenhower
Something tells me that President Bush did not write the speech he gave today to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City. For one thing, it was relatively coherent. ...
Aug 22, 2007 / John Nichols
For Rove to Imply He Didn’t Leak Plame’s Identity Is “Nonsense” For Rove to Imply He Didn’t Leak Plame’s Identity Is “Nonsense”
Karl Rove is working feverishly to rewrite history in the few remaining days before he is no longer taking taxpayer money to do the political work of the Bush-Cheney administration...
Aug 20, 2007 / John Nichols
How Super Was Our Power Anyway? How Super Was Our Power Anyway?
Pick up the paper any day and you'll find tiny straws in the wind (or headlines inside the fold) reflecting the seeping away of American power. The President of the planet's "...
Aug 20, 2007 / TomDispatch
An Act of Economic Madness An Act of Economic Madness
News stories just out report that the Bush administration is planning to designate Iran's entire Revolutionary Guard Corps a "specially designated global terrorist" in or...
Aug 16, 2007 / TomDispatch
Follow-Up Thoughts on the LGBT Debate Follow-Up Thoughts on the LGBT Debate
Just a short blog entry to follow up on what I wrote on Friday about the LOGO presidential debate. I've heard from a few people that Barack Obama was asking smart insider question...
Aug 13, 2007 / E.J. Graff
Dr. King’s Candidate Dr. King’s Candidate
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. did not make many political endorsements. As the most recognized leader of a civil rights movement that enjoyed support from both Democrats and ...
Aug 12, 2007 / John Nichols