WASHINGTON — Democrats and human rights advocates criticized President Bush's veto Saturday of a bill that would have banned the CIA from using ...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics
Obama needs to convince the military family that their perception that Democrats are reflexively antimilitary is wrong when it comes to him.
Michael Shaw | Posted 03.06.2008 | Media
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 03.05.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — President Bush said Wednesday that the United States has to "get off oil" to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers and declared "i...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 03.02.2008 | Politics
What could persuade a victim of North Vietnamese interrogation techniques to abandon his principled stand against torture and side with the architects of Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and extraordinary rendition?
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
Happy Leap Day! Because we are given an extra day this year, I would like to spend it in a good old fashioned Bush-bash. Maybe it's because everyone'...
Robert Weissman | Posted 02.29.2008 | Business
There was a time, not so long ago, when U.S. governmental hypocrisy on human rights and corporate interests was at least acknowledged. But now it se...
Dave Winer | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics
What became apparent in last night's debate is that we already have more leadership from this man who hasn't yet won the Democratic nomination than we have from our actual president.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics
Watching last night's debate, I couldn't resist wondering whether Ralph Nader could somehow harm the Democratic nominee in the race by reaching the few voters that could fall victim to his eccentric rantings.
Lionel Beehner | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
We've entered a post-GWOT world and not a second too soon. Besides the fact it was an abysmal failure--terrorist attacks have gone up since 9/11 everywhere, it was never a real war.
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
Tomorrow night may be the last debate in the Democratic primary race. This will be the twentieth debate so far, which has to be some kind of record. ...
Robert Scheer | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
Castro's resignation is more promising for the burnishing of his legacy than the Cuban hard-liners in Miami and their fawning allies in the Bush administration would like to believe.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
The audacity of enlightenment reaches much farther than the audacity of hope, and until we are willing to reassert our right to aspire, America will remain crippled spiritually.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics
Can George Bush really imagine that his contempt for checks and balances, and for the Bill of Rights, will one day be compared favorably to Lincoln's boldness in saving the Union?
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
It's been a busy week for Democrats, with a lot to cover. There has been good news and bad, but on the whole I'd have to judge the week a success for...
Barry Yourgrau | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
Of course it's about Bush. But I keep remembering something George Soros said before the last presidential election: that 2000 was about Bush--but 200...
Tom Andrews | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
While the president uses his platform to stoke the fear card, the Dems use their platform to galvanize the nation on the question of whether a trainer injected drugs into the buttocks of a MLB pitcher.
Jeff Merkley | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
The men and women who have served this country in the Armed Forces left our shores to fight overseas for us. The absolute least we can do is fight for them when they come home.
Tamsin Rothschild | Posted 02.12.2008 | Living
Can sorry come in the middle? Or do have to wait until we have completely wrecked, ravaged and ruined everything? And only then say sorry?
Ari Melber | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
The past few months of the spying debate do reveal both the promise and residual frailty of this mildly resurgent Democratic Party.
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics
I'm going to start off with a quick piece of advice for both Democratic campaigns (or perhaps for Howard Dean) -- spend the next few weeks taping ever...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Bush, unpopular nationally but still a fundraising force, is ready to put the power of the White House behind the Republi...
Robert Scheer | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Even if your favored candidate did well on Super Tuesday, ask yourself if he or she will seriously challenge the bloated military budget that President Bush has proposed for 2009.
Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 02.05.2008 | Media
Public broadcasting officials vowed Monday to fight drastic cuts President Bush is seeking to make to federal financing for public television and radi...
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 | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics