Political Figures

Chávez and Maradona Lead Massive Rebuke of Bush Chávez and Maradona Lead Massive Rebuke of Bush

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona led thousands in a massive rebuke of George W. Bush, his trade policies and his neoconservative age...

Nov 5, 2005 / Feature / Jordana Timerman

Intolerable Cruelty Intolerable Cruelty

If the US is to prevail in the war on terror, we must do it by distinguishing ourselves from the enemy. Torture and degrading treatment are as morally evil as terrorism, because th...

Nov 3, 2005 / David Cole

Abramoff’s Last Stand Abramoff’s Last Stand

Senator John McCain's latest Senate inquiry into über-lobbyist Jack Abramoff strikes deep in the corrupt heart of the Bush Administration.

Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / Ari Berman

Did Cheney Know Plame Was Undercover? Did Cheney Know Plame Was Undercover?

The indictment of I. Lewis Libby indictment casts Vice President Dick Cheney in a key role in the CIA leak investigation: It suggests Cheney had reason to suspect Valerie Wilson wa...

Oct 31, 2005 / Feature / David Corn

Lessons From the Miers Debacle Lessons From the Miers Debacle

What have Bush and his allies learned from this sorry epidode? Intellectual substance matters. Executive privilege is not absolute. Roe v. Wade is a bear trap for the GOP.

Oct 28, 2005 / Bruce Shapiro

Another Miracle From Bill Frist Another Miracle From Bill Frist

The doctor who proved himself a master of distant diagosis has one more trick up his sleeve.

Oct 27, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin

Conservative Crackup Conservative Crackup

Bush's lavish subsidies and reckless attempts to export democracy through the barrel of a gun violate conservative principles. Republican realists are finally catching on.

Oct 27, 2005 / Eyal Press

The White House Criminal Conspiracy The White House Criminal Conspiracy

The Bush Administration should be prosecuted for conspiracy to defraud the United States by using half-truths and recklessly false statements to lead the country into an illegal wa...

Oct 26, 2005 / Feature / Elizabeth de la Vega

No Privilege for Miers No Privilege for Miers

Harriet Miers's slender public record makes it imperative that her advice the president on personal, executive and constitutional matters be fully disclosed to the Senate Judiciary...

Oct 20, 2005 / Stephen Gillers

White House Plame-Out White House Plame-Out

Indictments or not, what America knows now about the outing of Valerie Plame is that Bush Administration officials deliberately leaked information that potentially damaged the nati...

Oct 20, 2005 / David Corn

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