Politics (page 2118)

Months later, paper retracts "climategate" story

David Weigel

David Weigel resigns from Washington Post

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) sit onstage during the CNN/Nevada Democratic Party debate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) in Las Vegas, Nevada November 15, 2007. REUTERS/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) (Â© Steve Marcus / Reuters)

FILE -In this May 21, 2010 file photo, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., right, and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., speak to reporters outside the White House in Washington. Lawmakers will tackle sticking points and try to blend House and Senate bills into a single rewrite of banking regulations. A final measure, which President Barack Obama wants by July 4, is intended to prevent another financial crisis like the 2008 meltdown, which triggered a deep recession. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) (Susan Walsh)

Why the bank reform bill is worth celebrating

Joe Conason, former President Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela

FILE - In this May 4, 2010 file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. With the scrawl of a pen, Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer awakened a dormant _ but politically explosive _ issue of illegal immigration, sending shock waves across the political spectrum in an election year when both parties had hoped to sidestep the topic. Two months after Brewer signed a new Arizona law instructing police to demand proof of a questionable person's legal status, voters have refocused on a topic that had faded into the background after Congress failed to overhaul the thorny immigration system in 2007. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File) (AP)

U.S. President Barack Obama listens to a question at the Fiscal Responsibility Summit at the White House in Washington February 23, 2009. President Obama pledged on Monday to cut the ballooning U.S. budget deficit by half in the next four years and said the country would face another economic crisis if it did not address its debt problems soon. Obama, whose month-old administration has pushed through a $787 billion economic stimulus package to try to jolt the country out of recession, said the need for spending now did not mean U.S. budget problems could be put off. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES) (Â© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)

Glenn Greenwald

Thursday link dump

House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, left, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., talk to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 10, 2010, after meeting with President Barack Obama regarding the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Charles Dharapak)

This image captured from a classified U.S. military video footage shows Iraqis being shot from an U.S. Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff on July 12, 2007, and released to Reuters on April 5, 2010 by WikiLeaks, a group that promotes leaking to fight government and corporate corruption. Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, were killed in the incident. The helicopter initially opens fire on the small group. Minutes later a van comes by, and starts assisting the wounded, and the helicopter opens fire on the van. REUTERS/WikiLeaks/Handout (IRAQ - Tags: CRIME LAW DISASTER MILITARY CIVIL UNREST) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS (Â© Ho New / Reuters)

FILE In this March 31, 2009, file photo, Rob Simmons talks to the Associated Press during an interview in Washington. Republicans once saddled with the burden of President George W. Bush's unpopularity are now experiencing a boon from another struggling president: Barack Obama. The GOP senses rising fortunes from coast to coast, as one-time lawmakers look to capitalize on voter frustration that booted some of them from office in 2006. Others, long retired, see the Democrats' luster fading and with it a chance for them to return to Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (Susan Walsh)

Linda McMahon scared of non-campaigning opponent

Republican Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown speaks after his ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol in Washington February 4, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (Â© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)

Scott Brown: Banking reform's "decider"?

American hikers Shane Bauer, left, Josh Fattal, center, and Sarah Shourd stand prior to meeting with their mothers at the Esteghlal hotel in Tehran, Friday, May 21, 2010. The mothers of three Americans jailed in Iran for 10 months had more time with their children on Friday after an emotional reunion a day earlier in a Tehran hotel overlooking Evin prison, where the three have been held since their arrest in July along the Iran-Iraq border. (AP Photo/Press TV) (Str)

Were the American hikers abducted by Iran?

Rep. Steve King

Steve King's birther joke

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour addresses the public on concerns that oil from the spill in the gulf has reached the shores of Mississippi as he attends the 31st New York Mississippi Picnic in New York's Central Park, Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (David Goldman)

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2007 file photo, former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper Gore arrive for the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, are separating after 40 years of marriage. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File) (AP)

Wednesday link dump

Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown

David Vitter waits two years to fire abusive aide

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