American Prospect Executive Editor Michael Tomasky announced today that the Prospect has hired Joe Conason to serve in a new position as the magazine’s Investigative Editor. Conason, the well-known investigative journalist, political columnist, and best-selling author, will oversee the Prospect‘s new emphasis on investigative reporting. He will assign, edit, and write articles, and he will […]
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Prospect Conference on C-SPAN2
Beginning at 5:53 tonight, the TAP emergency summit conference on the foreign policy crisis, held last Tuesday and Wesndesay and featuring Wesley Clark, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Theodore Sorensen, and many more, will be rebroadcast. The speeches by Clark and Brzezinski are two of the most effective challenges to America’s current foreign policy that we’ve heard. Here […]
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Head Rush
The news that Rush Limbaugh will be spending the month trying to kick his OxyContin habit provides a tempting opportunity to kick a thug while he’s down. Rush, after all, told his audience just eight years ago that “we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good […]
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Book ‘Em
Let’s just agree up front that there’s no augury or metaphor in it, but the fact remains that South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle spoke at length for the first time about his new book, which is due out in November, at something called the Deadwood Pavilion. Addressing an audience at his state’s first-ever book fair, […]
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FOXic Waste
Say what you will about its bias and inaccuracies, FOX News is succeeding at its mission. Of course, that mission is to spread bias and inaccuracies that bolster the position of the Bush White House. A new survey from the Program on International Policy Attitudes (a joint project of the Center on Policy Attitudes and […]
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Ashcroft on the Case
It’s not every investigation that lays its cards on the table at the outset, but the modus operandi of John Ashcroft, public eye, became apparent at the very moment the Justice Department got on the Joseph Wilson retaliatory leak case. As all signs pointed to a White House leaker, Justice announced that it would widen […]
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Indoor Pollution
Confirmation hearings are pending for Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, the nominee to replace Christie Whitman at the troubled Environmental Protection Agency. Leavitt surprised many in mid-August when he accepted the nomination, as he’d been offered the post just two months earlier and had turned it down because he was still undecided about seeking a fourth […]
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The Great Recusal
The Enron scandal should ring down the curtain on a whole philosophy of free-market capitalism and a whole style of government-corporate cronyism. It should launch a national movement to leash the corrupt power of money in politics so that legislators and regulators can serve the public interest. We have been here before, most recently when […]