Bill Clinton

Clinton Backs Barack and Biden...Finally

Talking Points Memo : Presidential Election 2008

Bill Clinton thinks the vice presidency will be more important than ever in the next four years--and his bet's on Joe Biden

The Working-Class Vote in Ohio

Brett Story & VideoNation : US Politics & Government

What issues matter to Ohio's blue-collar voters? JoAnn Wypijewski reports from the campaign trail.

Bill and Hill's Dangerous Game

Nicholas von Hoffman : Hillary Clinton

The Clintons cannot compete with the enthusiasm Obama sets off so they are trying to destroy it. They just may succeed--but at an awful price.

Get Me Rewrite

Mark Updegrove : Journalists & Journalism

Bill Clinton maintains that the mainstream media has misrepresented his record on fighting terror. But it will take a generation to meaningfully assess his effectiveness.

Clinton's Blindness on Welfare Reform

Robert Scheer : Welfare

You'd think Bill Clinton doesn't know the difference between getting mothers and their children off the welfare rolls and getting them out of poverty.

Middlemarch

Eyal Press : Democratic Party

The GOP is an object of popular loathing, yet prospects seem dim for ousting it from power. Three new books explain why: Off Center explores the GOP's genius for subverting the mechanisms of accountability, and Death by a Thousand Cuts and Stand Up Fight Back examine how the Republican machine dominates issues from tax cuts to energy conservation. Plus, the Clinton biography The Survivor looks at the man who once made liberals feel like winners, yet whose legacy holds them back.

Clinton Agonistes

Eric Alterman : Media Analysis

John Harris's history of the Clinton Administration deserves much of the praise it has received, but it ignores the media's anti-Clinton animus.

Bill Clinton Joins the Campaign

Calvin Trillin : Presidential Election 2004

Living to Tell the Tale

Stanley I. Kutler : Autobiography & Memoir

The Believer

Tom Wicker : Autobiography & Memoir

Still Clinton's Show?

William Greider : Democratic Party

If the Democratic Party is to find a sense of purpose, it must get beyond Bill Clinton's influence.

Subverting the UN

Richard Falk & David Krieger : United Nations

To save the UN from the White House's destructive unilateralism, other key nations will have to stand up to its bullying.

Knowledge (and Power)

Christopher Hitchens : US Intelligence/Covert Ops

Chelsea in Oxford

Daniel Swift : Youth

The Pardoner's Tale

Christopher Hitchens : Israel

The Embarrassment of the Riches

Christopher Hitchens

Marc Rich Redux

Tom Juravich & Kate Bronfenbrenner : Crime