Hastert Under Mounting Pressure Hastert Under Mounting Pressure
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, has scheduled a press conference this morning in Chicago. What will Hastert, who faces mounting pressure to quit over his mishandling of...
Oct 5, 2006 / The Nation
The Circle Fires The Circle Fires
The fallout from Foleygate keeps increasing. Just when it looks like Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert might be shoring up his support among conservatives, another bombshell dro...
Oct 4, 2006 / The Nation
Stale Peanuts Stale Peanuts
All hands are on deck, and scrambling desperately, as the administration tries in vain to get its story straight regarding a July 10, 2001 meeting between then-National Security a...
Oct 4, 2006 / The Nation
Tipping Point? Tipping Point?
Sometimes, the proximate cause of an unraveling, even an implosion, may catch everyone by surprise. This week the "tipping point" (to borrow a Bush administration phrase from the...
Oct 4, 2006 / The Nation
Hastert Lies Again, Gets Caught Again Hastert Lies Again, Gets Caught Again
This whole Denny Hastert scandal is moving beyond parody. Apparently, the Speaker of the House thinks that no one who actually follows the news listens to conservative talk radio...
Oct 4, 2006 / The Nation
Don’t Try This While Voting Don’t Try This While Voting
Richard, what will it take to convince you that Mark Foley is well within the range of a deranged pedophile, deserving of the full scorn he is now receiving? How about if I told ...
Oct 3, 2006 / The Nation
Foley Days Foley Days
Let's see, in the last week the National Intelligence Estimate concluded that the Iraq War has become a jihadist "cause celebre" that only fuels terrorism and anti-Americanism. Th...
Oct 3, 2006 / The Nation
Flustered Bush Misses Air Force One Flight Flustered Bush Misses Air Force One Flight
The President narrowly missed his Air Force One flight to Boise after arriving just moments after the plane's doors had closed.
Oct 3, 2006 / The Nation
A Party Without a Soul A Party Without a Soul
What, if anything, do Republicans stand for anymore? The party that promised to restore honor and integrity to Washington brought us Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay and now, Mark Foley ...
Oct 3, 2006 / The Nation
Wal-Mart’s Latest Markdown Wal-Mart’s Latest Markdown
Taking time out from its nonstop coverage of the "early admission" policies of a few elite colleges -- could this newspaper appeal to an even tinier, more rarefied demographic? --...
Oct 2, 2006 / The Nation