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Mar 12, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Rosmarie Waldrop

Closing Prison’s Revolving Door Closing Prison’s Revolving Door

While as Matt notes, the Senate has played a particularly obstructionist role in the current Congress, it also deserves some serious plaudits for what it did last night: passed th...

Mar 12, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Irony of the Day Irony of the Day

On the White House's website, Bush's Oct. 7, 2002 speech (given days before Congress overwhelmingly passed the Iraq War Resolution) is bannered with the headline: "Denial and Dece...

Mar 12, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Shame and Public Officials Shame and Public Officials

Our bailiwick here at J Street is to bring you news, ideas, opinions and thoughts from the capital, but I went to dinner with a bunch of beltway denizens last night and all anyone...

Mar 12, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Against Sexual Scandal Against Sexual Scandal

In just two days, Eliot Spitzer went from white knight to shamed ex-governor. But the real loser in all of this is sex itself.

Mar 12, 2008 / Lauren Berlant

The Winter Soldiers The Winter Soldiers

From tomorrow through Saturday the Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan hearings in Washington, DC will feature testimony from US veterans detailing what's really happening on the...

Mar 12, 2008 / Peter Rothberg

The Politics of Pork The Politics of Pork

To piggy-back (no pun intended) on one of Chris's posts from yesterday, it also bears noting how thoroughly overblown the current debate over Congressional pork is. One: it's more...

Mar 12, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Spitzer Quits Spitzer Quits

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer announced this morning that he would step down as of Monday, ending a career that saw a meteoric rise followed by an even more meteoric fall. "I c...

Mar 12, 2008 / John Nichols

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

Spitzer’s Shame is Wall Street’s Gain Spitzer’s Shame is Wall Street’s Gain

Why should we get all worked up over the revelation that the New York governor paid for sex?

Mar 12, 2008 / Column / Robert Scheer

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