Larry Di Rita, a close confidant of former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, criticized President-elect Barack Obama's expected retention of Defense ...
Jon Soltz | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
With a new Commander in Chief with a very different view, Gates provides the perfect short-term bridge between the eras of pre-Iraq-redeployment and post-Iraq-redeployment.
Slate | Fred Kaplan | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
Donald Rumsfeld is writing his memoirs, and if his op-ed in the Nov. 23 New York Times is any preview, it should be a classic of self-serving revision...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton could play the heavy with the Israeli government (for once) and demand that it makes serious concessions toward creating an independent Palestinian state.
David Latt | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Before he leaves office, will President Bush use his power to pardon to shield the members of his administration from legal action? If so, his pardons will be a last effort to avoid accountability.
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
In a nutshell, the Pentagon's argument couldn't be simpler or more red-bloodedly American: We have too much stuff there to leave Iraq any time soon.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
In an attempt to separate fact from fiction, I'd like to offer my advice, based on the three years I have spent studying Guantanamo in unprecedented detail.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
Prior to the start of the war in Iraq in 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made a distinction between "Old Europe" that opposed the America...
Erica Heller | Posted 11.12.2008 | Entertainment
Regrets, I've had a few; The "Mission Accomplished" banner was certainly loony. Not every dream came true, I don't wake up with Carla Bruni.
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
There is a strong chance that Lawrence Summers is going to be returned to the post of Secretary of the Treasury. Larry will have to prove to us that he is different and not the harbinger of Clinton Term III.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
I previously wrote an article about those who have served in our military, and the challenges facing them and their families. At that time, I intervi...
RJ Eskow | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
In the end, the decision couldn't be clearer. This election is a referendum on trusting the electorate. It's a referendum on democracy itself.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
Stone's movie is kind to "W" in that it makes a case that George spent most of his life swimming in water too deep for his swimming skills. The tragedy is that voters never recognized that.
The Washington Post | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics
Behind every great man or woman in Washington there is a great painting. As the Bush presidency draws to a close, portrait artists can expect a surge ...
Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
The study says that the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)'s rush to deploy something, anything, has come at the expense of research and careful development of weapons that work.
Charles J. Brown | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
Powell endorsed Obama and I was moved by his statement, particularly his challenge to Republicans about their demonization of Islam. Despite this, I don't welcome his endorsement.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
This database reportedly contains the names of Americans who, "often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated."
John K. Wilson | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home
Even if Obama were inexperienced, that would be no reason to vote against him. History shows us that an experienced politician usually makes for a lousy president. In fact, the most consistent variable to predict a failed presidency is experience.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
We are, for all intents and purposes, one terrorist attack away from having a full-fledged authoritarian state emerge from the shadows.
NY Times | MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- Senior White House officials played a central role in deliberations in the spring of 2002 about whether the Central Intelligence Agency ...
Erik Lundegaard | Posted 09.24.2008 | Entertainment
Football metaphors abound. Boys who never went to war get to use the words of war. This is a movie that actually celebrates the worst foreign policy decisions we've ever made.
Charles J. Brown | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
The Office of War Crimes Issues doesn't just tell other countries to do as we say and not as we do. The Administration has actually made OWCI complicit of its own war crimes apparatus.
Daily Telegrah | Tim Shipman | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
Known as the Steel Magnolia in her youth, Miss Rice has guided the US through the war on terror, looked tyrants in the eye and faced down terrorist th...
John Lundberg | Posted 09.14.2008 | Living
Has poetry officially jumped the shark? I came across an NPR story this past week on a composer who set the "found poetry" of Donald Rumsfeld--pulled...
Joyce McFadden | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living
I never thought that my daughter's school would turn into an Emergency Command Center, and the school beside hers a morgue.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as...
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The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI)...
Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on Campaign Trail...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
Via ThinkProgress, in an interview with NewsMax, President Bush's brother Jeb...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
The seventies are back in a big way: shaggy hair, plaid prints and idealism have all...
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns...
It started with the fist bump seen 'round the world. Soon...
A revolutionary device that can harness...
Washington Post | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics