A look at how radicalism has forced the Republican Party to retreat.
By Sidney Blumenthal Apr 24, 2008
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Some bloggers accuse Blumenthal, a Hillary advisor, of spreading right-wing lies about Obama. But I get his e-mail blasts and the charge isn't fair.
By Joe Conason
May 2, 2008
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A hard look at how one man changed the face of neoconservatism.
By Sidney Blumenthal
April 14, 2008
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The Republican will to power remains ferocious. It will take a dauntless Democratic leader to win back the White House and restore dignity to the Constitution.
By Sidney Blumenthal
November 15, 2007
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Gone are the days when stern words by a U.S. president could prevent rash action by an errant foreign leader like Musharraf.
By Sidney Blumenthal
November 8, 2007
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His reputation for integrity was meant to restore credibility to the Justice Department. Instead, his remarks on waterboarding show that he, like Alberto Gonzales, has let the White House call the shots.
By Sidney Blumenthal
November 1, 2007
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Ninety years after Walter Lippmann first railed against the complicity of the media in wartime propaganda, we're back at ground zero.
By Sidney Blumenthal
October 25, 2007
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His personal journals unveil the glory and corruption of postwar presidents with emotional truth and power. Alas, the age of the great historian is over.
By Sidney Blumenthal
October 18, 2007
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Your duty is to defend America's reputation in the world. To do so, you must persuade the Bush administration to renounce its abhorrent and hypocritical policy on torture.
By Sidney Blumenthal
October 11, 2007
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Under the cloak of freedom, the U.S. exempted Blackwater and other contractors from Iraqi law -- and destroyed its own democratic credibility.
By Sidney Blumenthal
October 4, 2007
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His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush's National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses.
By Sidney Blumenthal
September 27, 2007
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Hoping that history will somehow vindicate him, the president has entered a phase of decadent perversity.
By Sidney Blumenthal
September 20, 2007
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The president is now taking credit for turning Sunni tribes against al-Qaida in Iraq. But two years ago he rejected a Sunni offer to negotiate an end to the violence.
By Sidney Blumenthal
September 13, 2007
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Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq.
By Sidney Blumenthal
September 6, 2007
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Without Karl Rove around to give him his orders, and with the investigations closing in, "Fredo" had nowhere to turn.
By Sidney Blumenthal
August 27, 2007
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Karl Rove calls himself Moby Dick. One speechwriter sees himself as St. Francis. Another sees him as Iago. All regard Bush as Abraham Lincoln. In Washington, reality is a myth.
By Sidney Blumenthal
August 22, 2007
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The country takes leave of the political serial killer who tried to forge a one-party state. But don't expect the Mayberry Machiavelli to pay for his civic sins.
By Sidney Blumenthal
August 13, 2007
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The White House fears that the former secretary of state will finally tell the truth about planning for the Iraq war.
By Sidney Blumenthal
August 9, 2007
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The president won't fire Alberto Gonzales. He needs him to protect White House secrets, including the scheming roles of Cheney and Rove.
By Sidney Blumenthal
August 2, 2007
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In the absence of anything remotely resembling victory in Iraq, Bush and Cheney play the blame game -- including in a new, authorized biography of the vice president.
By Sidney Blumenthal
July 26, 2007
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The latest government estimate of the terrorist threat is just a rehash of the same old script, produced under pressure to support the president's efforts to sell the Iraq war.
By Sidney Blumenthal
July 19, 2007
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A staunch opponent of segregation, Lady Bird Johnson shares the glory of the greatest presidency for civil rights since Lincoln.
By Sidney Blumenthal
July 13, 2007
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Even as the president confesses that Scooter Libby engaged in a cover-up -- after all, that was the verdict -- he completes the ultimate obstruction of justice in the Plame affair.
By Sidney Blumenthal
July 3, 2007
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New details about his secret mission to expand the power of the president show that Cheney, at the end of his career, refuses to loosen his grip.
By Sidney Blumenthal
June 28, 2007
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Bush may ignore the 4th Circuit's stinging rebuke of his war paradigm. But his policies are losing the cloak of legality.
By Sidney Blumenthal
June 21, 2007
The GOP on the verge of imploding
Did Sidney Blumenthal cross the line?
Dick Cheney was never a "grown-up"
Goodbye, Mr. Bush
Bush's old world disorder
The sad decline of Michael Mukasey
Journalism and its discontents
Arthur M. Schlesinger's playbill for the American century
An open letter to Karen Hughes
Red, white and mercenary in Iraq
Dan Rather stands by his story
Bush's stairway to paradise
How Bush is trying to save face in Iraq
Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
Why did Gonzales resign?
Fantasy island
We'll go no more a-Rove-ing
Will the real Colin Powell stand up?
The three stooges
Operation Iraq betrayal
Cooking the intelligence, again
A Southern, and liberal, Lady
Bush and Cheney walk, too
The imperial vice presidency
Imperial presidency declared null and void
War Room
How the World Works
Joan Walsh