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Targeting Alaska’s Terrible Two Targeting Alaska’s Terrible Two

Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and Representative Don Young, the dynamic duo that brought us the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," have long been known as the unrepentant kings o...

Jul 25, 2007 / Ari Berman

Attack of the Raging Chicks Attack of the Raging Chicks

New York Times columnist David Brooks is one of the more effective conservative commentators, in that he is a master at making outrageous arguments with a professorial elan that su...

Jul 24, 2007 / Lakshmi Chaudhry

Dept of Misleading Headlines Dept of Misleading Headlines

According to the latest New York Times poll, "two-thirds of those polled said the United States should reduce its forces in Iraq, or remove them altogether." The same num...

Jul 24, 2007 / Ari Berman

YouTube Rocks YouTube Rocks

A few minutes into Monday night's CNN/You Tube debate at the Citadel Military Academy in South Carolina, Senator Barack Obama said, "I believe in the core decency of the Ameri...

Jul 24, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Dems’ Nuclear Option The Dems’ Nuclear Option

We've done all we can do, Democrats said after pulling an all-nighter last week, when Republicans blocked yet another vote on a proposal to begin withdrawing American troops from I...

Jul 23, 2007 / Ari Berman

Censure for Bush & Cheney? Censure for Bush & Cheney?

On Meet the Press Sunday, Senator Russ Feingold announced that he will be introducing two censure resolutions in the next few days, aimed at holding President Bush, Vice-President ...

Jul 22, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Coming up on Meet the Press Coming up on Meet the Press

Friday night, one of my colleagues alerted me to the fact that I had confused McConnells. It's not the Bush "enabler" Senator (Mitch of Kentucky) who's going to be on NB...

Jul 21, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

DeLay’s Not Dead DeLay’s Not Dead

Tom DeLay is not dead. In Max Blumenthal's new video he appears at the College Republicans annual convention, offering an unconventional solution to America's illegal immigration p...

Jul 20, 2007 / Ari Berman

Powell: Engage Hamas Powell: Engage Hamas

The Bush Administration, in advance of a much-hyped Middle East conference in September, continues to push a "West Bank first" strategy in the occupied territories that c...

Jul 19, 2007 / Ari Berman

Bush to Children: Drop Dead Bush to Children: Drop Dead

On so-called philosophical grounds, President Bush opposes health care for children. A bipartisan group of Senators want to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SC...

Jul 19, 2007 / Ari Berman

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