WASHINGTON — The new Congress on Thursday asked a federal judge to force the Bush White House to keep documents on the controversial firings of ...
Vanity Fair | Cullen Murphy and Todd S. Purdum | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties....
Steve Parker | Posted 12.11.2008 | Business
And now, it's on to the Senate! The House today passed, 237 to 170, HR 7321, the automotive loan bailout bill, and has sent it on to the Senate. H...
Brian Ross | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Much of the economic crisis is also being engineered by our sweet neo-cons to create an untenable situation for the Dems coming into power.
Beth Arnold | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
The fact that some of us Americans don't live within our country's borders doesn't make us less American. In this time of unifying America, accept your cousins who don't live at home.
Politico | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
Congressional Democrats are eyeing a little-known, Clinton-era law as a way to reverse Bush administration midnight regulations -- even ones that have...
Steve Parker | Posted 11.03.2008 | Business
Obama has consistently shown his support for an American car-making industry, a modern and green industry able to build the kinds of cars and trucks people will want to buy.
Washington Monthly | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics
After failing in every imaginable way, with the worst approval ratings since the dawn of modern polling, and with a party that wants the president to ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics
The only thing in all the world I love more than flowcharts, which are awesome, are Venn diagrams. I especially adore interactive Venn diagrams and I...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media
U.S. mayors resolve to avoid burning dirty tar sands oil, Bush signs $162B war spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan, Afghanistan civilian death toll rises sharply, Scalia still blames Gore for the 2000 election debacle.
CNN | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin will be leaving his job this month, according to White House spokesperson Dana Perino. Perino says Hagin'...
Jay Rosen | Posted 06.03.2008 | Home
McClellan as White House spokesman lacked experience, talent, charm, agility, depth. But Bush and Cheney saw these defects as an advantage. They actually wanted the executive branch to become more opaque, and he was the perfect man for the job.
Jamie Malanowski | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
Scott's old mates seem none too happy with him these days. Of course, what they're saying may not be exactly the same as what they're thinking.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
Would it have been better if he dramatically stepped to the podium one day and said, "We have been doing an organized propaganda campaign to deceive the American people and I resign!"?
Nancy Snow | Posted 05.29.2008 | Media
If McClellan had cared about the public interest or the public need to know about such manipulation in marketing war then he should have spoken up when it had a personal cost. That is courage.
Joe Cutbirth | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
This is McClellan's shot at shaping his place in history, and so far, the man who studied from the Bush/ Rove playbook for seven years is using the tricks he learned from the masters.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.28.2008 | Media
We asked the publisher if the publicity of McClellan's book felt different this time around, or if this was exactly what he planned. After all, doesn't every publisher plan for their books to hit #1?
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — In a shocking turnabout, the press secretary most known for defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and a host of other controver...
Politico/Washington Post | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
The Politico and Washington Post have excerpts from former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's scathing book on the Bush Administration. Fr...
A. Siegel | Posted 05.11.2008 | Politics
Not everything is the Bush White House's fault. Not everything. In this case, not fully their fault, but this contrast is too striking to go with...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics
John McCain came to the White House today to accept the endorsement of President Bush. While waiting for McCain to arrive, Bush stood on the North Po...
Harry Shearer | Posted 02.29.2008 | Media
An Indiana blogger exposes a serial plagiarist in an interesting locale: the White House. The offender has already copped to the most recent offense.
If you think people laugh at your skiing skills then think again. A man was a...
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin's...
Rep. John Conyers has written a letter to Democratic colleagues urging them to join...
As January 20 grows larger in the window, I've been thinking more often about the...
I want to play poker with Harry Reid. Really I do. Rather than call for a...
America is in shock. It is not because of the unusual sight of the first black...
Are nude animal rights protests old hat? We got word of a...
Rachel Maddow appeared on "The Daily...
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Patrick Swayze, who has been battling pancreatic cancer for a year, sat down with Barbara Walters for...
An article in next month's Atlantic asks, "Is porn...
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The Internet is awash with rumors over the cause of the tragic death of actor John Travolta's...
AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics