In 2008, Bush v. Gore Redux?

A petition drive on its way to becoming a ballot initiative in California could turn into a constitutional crisis.

Oil and Betrayal in Iraq

Yes, we suspected it. In a deep sense, many of us knew it, just as those in Washington did. But now it's in our face. Greenspan put the mother of all facts in front of our noses, and we can no longer be in denial. The US invaded Iraq for the oil.

US Caused More Deaths in Iraq Than Saddam, Says Anti-War Tribunal

The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), a grouping of NGOs, intellectuals and writers opposed to the war in Iraq, on Friday accused the United States of causing more deaths in Iraq than ousted president Saddam Hussein.

Victim Tells Police of Possible Motive for Abduction

The authorities provided a possible motive in the case of the 20-year-old West Virginia woman who they say was raped and tortured at a trailer about 30 miles south of Charleston.

G.O.P.'s Dirty Tricks Begin

The folks who gave us the Willie Horton ads, the Swift boat campaign, the purges of black voters in Florida and endless other dirty electoral tricks are at it again.

Greenspan Misses Cheney's Memo: Spills the Beans on Oil

For those still wondering why President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney sent our young men and women into Iraq, the secret is now "largely" out.

Alabama Plan Brings Out Cry of Resegregation

After white parents complained about school crowding, authorities drew up a rezoning plan. The results: almost all of the students required to move this fall were black.

Erwin Chemerinsky and the Post-9/11 Attack on Academic Freedom

This is the latest chapter in the post September 11 attack on academic freedom under the guise of protecting security.

Bush the Jihadist: How the World was Plunged into an Apocalyptic War

And the human cost of "Operation Iraqi Freedom"? The total number of American servicemen and women killed in action already amounts to 3,826, with 168 British forces having been killed. And between 500,000 and 600,000 Iraqi men, women and children have died.

No Exit, No Strategy

Once again, it is clear that President Bush refuses to recognize the truth of his failure in Iraq and envisions a military commitment that has no end.

Testimony of The Tortured

Bremer swiftly set about wiping Iraq clean and applying Milton Friedman's radical economic formula in the Arab world, a region Klein calls "the last holdout for this neoliberal crusade." This, Klein writes, would come in the form of "mass privatization, complete free trad …

2 G.I.'s, Skeptical but Loyal, Die in a Truck Crash in Iraq

Two of the soldiers who wrote recently of their pessimism about the war in an Op-Ed article in The Times were killed in Baghdad Monday when their truck overturned.

Bush Nearing Choice to Lead Justice Dept.

Former Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson, seen as a staunch partisan, is considered a top candidate to replace Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.

Mounting Death Toll Which Makes a Mockery of US Optimism

By the time General Petraeus had finished speaking yesterday the slaughter in Iraq for the previous 24 hours could be tallied.

Outrageous Quotes

Option A: "By, by that logic, let's tax the poor. Shoot 'em." Steve Forbes, a regular guest on the show and, by the way, the national co-chair and senior policy adviser to the Giuliani campaign,

The Age of Disaster Capitalism

As George Bush and his cabinet took up their posts in January 2001, the need for new sources of growth for US corporations was an urgent matter.

On Fox News Sunday, Hume falsely asserted that Al Qaeda in Iraq was there before we got there

On Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume asked Juan Williams, "Who are we fighting there [in Iraq] now, Juan?" then answered his own question: "Al Qaeda in Iraq. They were there before we got there, and they're there now." In fact, U.S.

The Strange Case of an Imprisoned Alabama Governor

There is still a lot of questionable Justice Department activity for Congress to sort through. The imprisonment of Don Siegelman, a former Democratic governor of Alabama, should be at the top of the list.

Bad News Puts Political Glare Onto Economy

The Federal Reserve could feel more pressure from Democrats and Republicans to cut interest rates.

Is It Fixed Yet?

With the Republican minority tacking xenophobic amendments onto every bill in sight, the chances of real, broad immigration reform seem as bleak as ever.

A Poverty of Coverage: Why Aren't The Poor on The Media Agenda?

A FAIR study released September 7 found that in just over three years (9/11/03 - 10/30/06) the major TV networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, broadcast only 58 stories dealing with poverty in more than a passing mention.

Reporting from Baghdad

It should come as no surprise that the Bush administration's newest military-man-of-substance-turned- political lapdog, General Petraeus, maintains that the situation in Iraq is not only salvageable, but actually improving, due to the "surge" of U.S.

For Thompson, Goal Is to Don Reagan Mantle

Fred D. Thompson is trying to win over conservatives by positioning himself as the ideological and stylistic heir of Ronald Reagan.

Kristol: Another Dishonorable Chicken-hawk

Although he was born in 1952, he never served during Vietnam. I am sure while at Harvard he was a staunch supporter of the American effort to enrich the war profiteers while ostensibly stopping that war's "enemy" communism from spreading across Asia.

NPR's Cornish reinforces myth of Thompson as Watergate hero

Reporting on Fred Thompson's Republican presidential campaign, National Public Radio's Audie Cornish cited the"renown[]" Thompson acquired for his role as Republican counsel on the Senate Watergate committee during Watergate, but her report did not mention Thompson's own admissio …

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