The GOP on the verge of imploding
A look at how radicalism has forced the Republican Party to retreat.
Thursday, Apr 24, 2008 10:00 AM UTC 83Entertainment 2004 Elections, George W. Bush
Sidney Blumenthal
Entertainment 2004 Elections, George W. Bush
Dick Cheney was never a “grown-up”
A hard look at how one man changed the face of neoconservatism.
Monday, Apr 14, 2008 11:01 AM UTC 58Entertainment George W. Bush
Goodbye, Mr. Bush
The Republican will to power remains ferocious. It will take a dauntless Democratic leader to win back the White House and restore dignity to the Constitution.
Thursday, Nov 15, 2007 11:05 AM UTC 122Politics 2008 Elections
Bush’s old world disorder
Gone are the days when stern words by a U.S. president could prevent rash action by an errant foreign leader like Musharraf.
Thursday, Nov 8, 2007 11:58 AM UTC 44Politics Afghanistan, George W. Bush
The sad decline of Michael Mukasey
His reputation for integrity was meant to restore credibility to the Justice Department. Instead, his remarks on waterboarding show that he, like Alberto Gonzales, has let the White House call the shots.
Thursday, Nov 1, 2007 11:17 AM UTC 50Politics Dick Cheney, Torture
Journalism and its discontents
Ninety years after Walter Lippmann first railed against the complicity of the media in wartime propaganda, we're back at ground zero.
Thursday, Oct 25, 2007 11:05 AM UTC 70Politics
Arthur M. Schlesinger’s playbill for the American century
His personal journals unveil the glory and corruption of postwar presidents with emotional truth and power. Alas, the age of the great historian is over.
Thursday, Oct 18, 2007 11:03 AM UTC 12Politics Memoirs, Liberalism
An open letter to Karen Hughes
Your duty is to defend America's reputation in the world. To do so, you must persuade the Bush administration to renounce its abhorrent and hypocritical policy on torture.
Thursday, Oct 11, 2007 11:21 AM UTC 87Politics Torture
Red, white and mercenary in Iraq
Under the cloak of freedom, the U.S. exempted Blackwater and other contractors from Iraqi law -- and destroyed its own democratic credibility.
Thursday, Oct 4, 2007 11:08 AM UTC 52Politics Iraq war, Dick Cheney, Blackwater
Dan Rather stands by his story
His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush's National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses.
Thursday, Sep 27, 2007 11:29 AM UTC 345Politics George W. Bush, Katie Couric
Bush’s stairway to paradise
Hoping that history will somehow vindicate him, the president has entered a phase of decadent perversity.
Thursday, Sep 20, 2007 11:00 AM UTC 129Politics George W. Bush, Iraq war
How Bush is trying to save face in Iraq
The president is now taking credit for turning Sunni tribes against al-Qaida in Iraq. But two years ago he rejected a Sunni offer to negotiate an end to the violence.
Thursday, Sep 13, 2007 11:55 AM UTC 42Politics George W. Bush, Al-Qaida
Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq.
Thursday, Sep 6, 2007 11:16 AM UTC 293Politics CIA, Iraq war, United Nations
Why did Gonzales resign?
Without Karl Rove around to give him his orders, and with the investigations closing in, "Fredo" had nowhere to turn.
Monday, Aug 27, 2007 6:00 PM UTC 64Politics Enron, Department of Justice
Fantasy island
Karl Rove calls himself Moby Dick. One speechwriter sees himself as St. Francis. Another sees him as Iago. All regard Bush as Abraham Lincoln. In Washington, reality is a myth.
Wednesday, Aug 22, 2007 11:24 AM UTC 63Politics
We’ll go no more a-Rove-ing
The country takes leave of the political serial killer who tried to forge a one-party state. But don't expect the Mayberry Machiavelli to pay for his civic sins.
Monday, Aug 13, 2007 9:00 PM UTC 101Politics 2008 Elections, 2004 Elections
Will the real Colin Powell stand up?
The White House fears that the former secretary of state will finally tell the truth about planning for the Iraq war.
Thursday, Aug 9, 2007 11:40 AM UTC 109Politics Iraq war, Neoconservatism
The three stooges
The president won't fire Alberto Gonzales. He needs him to protect White House secrets, including the scheming roles of Cheney and Rove.
Thursday, Aug 2, 2007 11:40 AM UTC 92Politics Department of Justice
Operation Iraq betrayal
In the absence of anything remotely resembling victory in Iraq, Bush and Cheney play the blame game -- including in a new, authorized biography of the vice president.
Thursday, Jul 26, 2007 11:50 AM UTC 44Politics George W. Bush, Iraq war
Cooking the intelligence, again
The latest government estimate of the terrorist threat is just a rehash of the same old script, produced under pressure to support the president's efforts to sell the Iraq war.
Thursday, Jul 19, 2007 11:30 AM UTC 29Politics CIA, Al-Qaida, Terrorism, Iraq war
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Sidney Blumenthal, a former assistant and senior advisor to President Clinton, writes a column for Salon and the Guardian of London. His new book is titled "How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime." He is a senior fellow at the New York University Center on Law and Security.
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