The Way Out of Iraq The Way Out of Iraq
Just read Steve Coll's edifying and nuanced profile of David Petraeus and it occurred to me that there's been kind of a strange flip between the two parties on Iraq. There was a t...
Sep 9, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Culture War Battle Stations Culture War Battle Stations
Part of the promise of the Obama campaign from the beginning has always been that he can somehow bring the culture wars to a close. There's reason to believe in this promise: if t...
Sep 9, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Reading Bob Woodward Reading Bob Woodward
Reading Bob Woodward's The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008, is like reading raw transcripts of documents and interviews from a sensational murder trial: you kno...
Sep 9, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Cheney on Palin: She’s “Superb!” Cheney on Palin: She’s “Superb!”
Vice President Dick Cheney is such an appealing and popular figure that Republicans decided to dispatch the "Darth Vader" of American politics on an "urgent" international mission...
Sep 8, 2008 / John Nichols
Food For Thought Food For Thought
Well, after two straight weeks of gorging on politics, I feel a bit nauseous and spent. I found both the DNC and RNC dizzying and exhausting (for different reasons), and throw on ...
Sep 8, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Bernie Strikes Back Bernie Strikes Back
I was watching Charlie Rose on Wednesday night during the GOP confab, when Senator Orrin Hatch appeared and took this recurring shot used by the Republican attack dogs: "In all ho...
Sep 8, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What McCain Needs to Tell Us About Sarah Palin What McCain Needs to Tell Us About Sarah Palin
Now that the Republican National Convention is done, there is much speculation about how Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will respond to questions from the media that she so pointedly...
Sep 6, 2008 / John Nichols
McCain and The Forrestal McCain and The Forrestal
Last night, John McCain went on at length about his imprisonment in Vietnamese POW camps, and indeed his time as a captive in Vietnam has been the spark to his political career si...
Sep 5, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Inside Palin’s Politics Inside Palin’s Politics
Wednesday night I did a CBS Webcast with Katie Couric and sparred with Republican strategist Barbara Comstock over Sarah Palin -- what she represents and where she would lead the...
Sep 5, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Anti-Republican Who Is Really a Republican The Anti-Republican Who Is Really a Republican
ST. PAUL – In the eighth year of Republican dominance of the executive branch of the federal government, after an extended period in which Republicans also controlled the legisl...
Sep 5, 2008 / John Nichols