A Reasonable Judge at Justice?—Choosing a replacement for Alberto Gonzalez did not prove all that easy for George W. Bush. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made it clear that former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson was damaged if not dead. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had so badly botched the federal response to Katrina that […]

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Editor’s note: Two years ago, while I was working on a book on Vice President Dick Cheney, a general who had worked closely with the then-Secretary of Defense Cheney during the first Gulf War described the harm Cheney had done to the Army in the second go at Saddam Hussein. Troop strength was reduced to […]

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The Three Day War—Ignored by the U.S. media, yet reported in the U.K., are increased concerns that the Bush administration plans to bomb Iran. On the day before Labor Day, the Sunday Times of London carried some remarks by Alexis Debat of the Nixon Center, a conservative Washington think tank that includes Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and […]

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IN THE FALL OF 1994, the Nation‘s David Corn wrote an account of George W. Bush muscling the Argentine minister of public works on behalf of the Houston-based energy pipeline giant Enron. Corn reported that Bush had called the Argentine official in 1988 to introduce himself as the son of the current vice president who would […]

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Protégé System—Tom DeLay, indicted and awaiting trial in Texas while still making the rounds as a chat-show talking head, recently posted a touching encomium to Denny Hastert, the former Republican House Speaker, on his website. Under the headline “A Genius for Service,” DeLay described Hastert as “a Speaker of the whole House,” observing that “Democrats never […]

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