Politics

Bush’s Iraq Outdoes Saddam Bush’s Iraq Outdoes Saddam

Ethnic cleansing, chemical weapons, self-appointed executioners: Sound familiar? The US occupation in Iraq has created conditions just as bad--if not worse--than Saddam Hussein's r...

Nov 30, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer

Did Bush Really Want to Bomb Al Jazeera? Did Bush Really Want to Bomb Al Jazeera?

Given the Administration's record of attacking Al Jazeera verbally and militarily, is it conceivable that President Bush tried to convince Tony Blair to bomb its international head...

Nov 23, 2005 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill

Cheney’s Trouble with the Truth Cheney’s Trouble with the Truth

No other modern politician has come so close as Dick Cheney has to perfecting the theater of the absurd. Even as he protests his innocence of lying about matters of state, he lies ...

Nov 23, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Truth About the War The Truth About the War

The truth about the Iraq war may be clear to John Murtha and 60 percent of the American people, but not to the three Democratic senators interested in becoming President in 2008.

Nov 23, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Fall of the One-Party Empire The Fall of the One-Party Empire

Unmaking the empire of fantasy and fraud that the Republican Party has created will not be done quickly and the outcome is uncertain. But historians may one day write that the fake...

Nov 23, 2005 / Jonathan Schell

Cheney, Speaking From Experience Cheney, Speaking From Experience

Cheney maintains tough guys never run: They stick. Well, don't they, Dick?

Nov 23, 2005 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Minority/Majority Minority/Majority

While Steny Hoyer seeks to "make himself the first contact for K Street," Nancy Pelosi and George Miller are pressing forward with their crackdown on lobbying and ethics abuses.

Nov 23, 2005 / David Sirota

The Murtha Moment The Murtha Moment

John Murtha is right: The American public has turned against the war. Democrats and Republicans must put aside politics and work together to bring the troops home quickly and focus...

Nov 23, 2005 / The Editors

Dictionary of Republicanisms Dictionary of Republicanisms

Compassionate conservativism n. An expensively cultivated phrase created by a decades-old and well-funded Radical Right program of Orwellian doublespeak.

Nov 22, 2005 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Mismanaged Care Mismanaged Care

Tennessee once had a visionary health care plan for that left only 14 percent of residents uninsured. But with federal cuts and a governor's misguided attempt to privatize Medicaid...

Nov 22, 2005 / Feature / Trudy Lieberman

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