The Anti-Congress Congressional Race
In an election year when the Republican Party and the president are unpopular, and Washington itself has become shorthand for things gone wrong, Representative Randy Kuhl of Rochester is falling back...
View ArticleErica Jong Tells Italians Obama Loss ‘Will Spark the Second American Civil...
It seems that the final days of the presidential campaign have made Erica Jong and her friends more than a little anxious. A few days ago, Jong, the author and self-described feminist, gave an...
View ArticleNixon Admitted What Cheney Won’t
To understand the philosophy of government that Dick Cheney brought to Washington over the past seven years, it is most instructive to see Frost/Nixon, with Frank Langella’s remarkable reanimation of...
View ArticleIn Presidential Ambition, Joe Biden Is No Dick Cheney
In considering what role Joe Biden will play in the Obama White House, the most important question hasn’t yet been answered: Does Biden, a veteran of two unsuccessful presidential bids, still want to...
View ArticleDick Cheney Isn’t Helping
One of the more intelligent decisions made by the Bush White House was to limit Dick Cheney’s public visibility. He would grant interviews from time to time, but Bush and his strategists – and Cheney...
View ArticleWho Keeps Inviting the Bush-bots?
Just over four years ago, after George W. Bush was reelected by the smallest margin for an incumbent since Woodrow Wilson held off Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, a palpable sense somehow took hold in...
View ArticleIn Preparation for Obama’s Hundred-Day Reviews
Barack Obama won't complete his 100th day in office until next Wednesday, but already the reviews and commemorations are pouring in. Obama's has already been the most closely watched and dissected...
View ArticleTorture: Ineffective, Illegal, and Unprincipled
The issue of torture and security keeps reemerging in the news, as we debate matters of national survival and our core values. The issue is often posed in the following way: What if a terrorist had...
View ArticleThe 83 Waterboardings of Abu Zubaydah
The following is a transcript of notes taken at the interrogation of Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah. It was released by the C.I.A. at the request of Vice President Dick Cheney in order to demonstrate...
View ArticleFor Obama, the More Cheney the Better
Tom Andrews, a former Democratic congressman from Maine and an early and outspoken opponent of the Iraq War, used his Huffington Post blog last week to ask in frustration: “How is it that someone as...
View ArticleBut Not a Drop to Drink: The Threat to America’s Drinking Water
For those of us who worked closely with environmental professionals during the eight years of the Bush Administration, we know that it was a time of declining resources and reduced political support...
View ArticleAn Award for Defeating Cheneyism
Outraged babble and sanctimonious tut-tutting over President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize will pour forth until the very evening he accepts the prize in Oslo, and then for years afterward. His critics are...
View ArticleBig Business as Evil as Everyone Thought, Basically
“I became a villain for doing the right thing,” BP chief Tony Hayward said this July in a huge interview, in which he intermittently spoke in the third person, and disclosed that in London strangers...
View ArticleLiz Krueger Would Like You To Know Who Isn't Invited To Her Fundraiser
Manhattan State Senator Liz Krueger sent out a fundraising email earlier this week that features what may be called an “anti-Host Committee.” On the space on the invite where it is usually listed which...
View ArticleMorning Media Mix: Drop the Policy, Hold the Mic
Mic.com, formerly known as PolicyMic.com PolicyMic, the start-up news site for millennials that recently got $10 million dollars worth of VC funding, got a new look and a new name. It will now be known...
View ArticleDick Cavett Takes His Turn On The Hot Seat
Illustration by Paul Kisselev. Conversation with Dick Cavett evokes good psychoanalysis—a flurry of free association and childhood memories. In the edited and condensed phone session that follows, Mr....
View ArticleLook, Dick Cheney’s Back. And Republicans Want To Hide.
The tone of that interview is striking because Mr. Cheney appears to enjoy the opportunity to unequivocally defend his record and the CIA program. While perhaps this a commendable display of...
View ArticleCheney woos NJ Republicans at annual Reagan Day Dinner
WOODLAND PARK -- The star guest speaker of this year's New Jersey Reagan Day Dinner was met with raucous applause tonight when he offered a scathing critique of President Barack Obama's foreign policy,...
View ArticleDaily Caller’s Tucker Carlson: Today’s Journalists ‘Cowards, Trite and Stupid’
The pundit says he'll never hire a journalism school graduate to work at The Daily Caller, his rapidly growing news site.
View ArticleBlack Joe Lewis on Austin’s Segregated Music Scene and ‘Backlash’
Austin's Black Joe Lewis makes the kind of urgent, unrestrained music that you just don't hear anymore.
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