A Southern, and liberal, Lady
A staunch opponent of segregation, Lady Bird Johnson shares the glory of the greatest presidency for civil rights since Lincoln.
Friday, Jul 13, 2007 11:00 AM UTC 67Politics
Sidney Blumenthal
Politics
Bush and Cheney walk, too
Even as the president confesses that Scooter Libby engaged in a cover-up -- after all, that was the verdict -- he completes the ultimate obstruction of justice in the Plame affair.
Tuesday, Jul 3, 2007 5:48 PM UTC 141Politics CIA, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney
The imperial vice presidency
New details about his secret mission to expand the power of the president show that Cheney, at the end of his career, refuses to loosen his grip.
Thursday, Jun 28, 2007 12:31 PM UTC 91Politics CIA, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney
Imperial presidency declared null and void
Bush may ignore the 4th Circuit's stinging rebuke of his war paradigm. But his policies are losing the cloak of legality.
Thursday, Jun 21, 2007 11:10 AM UTC 76Politics George W. Bush, Terrorism
Bush’s European disaster
The president's trip was a pageant of disdain, delusion and provocation masquerading as a respite from his troubles at home.
Thursday, Jun 14, 2007 11:50 AM UTC 95Politics Iran, Iraq war, Global Warming
The Libby lobby’s pardon campaign
Having never expressed remorse for his crime, Scooter Libby instead enlisted his neoconservative friends to win him reduced prison time.
Thursday, Jun 7, 2007 11:08 AM UTC 101Politics CIA, Dick Cheney, Neoconservatism
America is not Bush
The damage the president has done to our country's reputation can be rebuilt -- by those who uphold our Founding Fathers' ideals.
Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:06 AM UTC 88Politics Osama Bin Laden
Wolfowitz’s tomb
A lead architect of the Iraq war, he believed shock and awe would transform the Middle East. But his policies failed -- along with his tenure at the World Bank.
Thursday, May 24, 2007 6:45 PM UTC 34Politics CIA, Dick Cheney, Neoconservatism
All hail the king
Under Bush, loyalty has reigned supreme. But as his presidency unravels, his obligation to his faithful servants -- from Gonzales to Wolfowitz -- has become perilously relative.
Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:24 AM UTC 69Politics Department of Justice, FISA
The impertinent prince
Bush plays naughty boy to the queen at his not-so-royal state dinner. But all those white ties couldn't hide his low poll numbers.
Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:00 AM UTC 48Politics George W. Bush, Neoconservatism
George Tenet, spook for all seasons
The former CIA chief seems strangely oblivious that his self-serving defense is shredding the remains of his reputation.
Thursday, May 3, 2007 11:40 AM UTC 49Politics CIA, Al-Qaida, Iraq war, England
From Norman Rockwell to Abu Ghraib
To understand how Bush justifies a torture policy that is the bane of our nation, consider the sentimental cowboy art that decks his Oval Office walls.
Thursday, Apr 26, 2007 11:07 AM UTC 65Politics Afghanistan, CIA, George W. Bush
Wolfowitz’s girlfriend problem
Not only did the World Bank president find his companion Shaha Ali Riza a cushy job in the State Department, but she received a security clearance -- unprecedented for a foreign national.
Thursday, Apr 19, 2007 11:30 AM UTC 61Politics Iraq war, Dick Cheney
Upending the Mayberry Machiavellis
It's up to Congress to save the executive branch from Bush's and Rove's radical experiment to transform it forever.
Thursday, Apr 12, 2007 11:20 AM UTC 50Politics Department of Justice
Matthew Dowd’s not-so-miraculous conversion
Is the former Bush pollster a true believer turned disillusioned critic, or was he an opportunist from the get-go?
Thursday, Apr 5, 2007 11:19 AM UTC 55Politics 2004 Elections, 2000 Elections
Follow the e-mails
The discovery of a previously unknown treasure chest of e-mails buried by the Bush administration may prove to be as informative as Nixon's secret White House tapes.
Thursday, Mar 29, 2007 11:19 AM UTC 37Politics Department of Justice
What Bush is hiding
In the U.S. attorney scandal, Alberto Gonzales gave orders, but he also took them -- from Karl Rove, who plotted to turn the federal criminal justice system into the Republican Holy Office of the Inquisition.
Thursday, Mar 22, 2007 10:50 AM UTC 102Politics George W. Bush, Karl Rove
All roads lead to Rove
The White House political director was clearly at the center of the partisan plot to fire U.S. attorneys, despite the administration's clumsy attempts to pretend otherwise.
Thursday, Mar 15, 2007 11:43 AM UTC 91Politics Department of Justice
Libby and the White House book club
While Cheney's former aide prays for a presidential pardon, Bush and Rove hold forth in their neocon salon, and the coverup continues.
Thursday, Mar 8, 2007 12:09 PM UTC 66Politics George W. Bush, Iraq war
How Cheney bombed in Afghanistan
The vice president slinks home from a disastrous trip where a failed assassination attempt was only the loudest proof that his war policies have emboldened al-Qaida and the Taliban.
Thursday, Mar 1, 2007 12:41 PM UTC 51Politics Afghanistan, Al-Qaida, Terrorism
Page 2 of 12 in Sidney Blumenthal
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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