Garance Franke-Ruta

HIS WAY. The saga of the dueling Hillary Clinton books continues with a highly unusual mid-week “preview” publication of Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr.‘s New York Times Magazine cover story on Clinton’s Iraq war vote and subsequent foreign policy moves. Oddly, the Times fails to disclose at the end of the adaptation from […]

HILLARY HATIN’, PART 2. A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, which will be released publicly one week from today, has been lumped in with Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr.‘s nasty new volume Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton. I haven’t yet had time to read […]

ELSEWHERE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD. The major east coast dailies have been on a bit of a roll over the past week when it comes to covering the changing (for good and for ill) status of women in the Muslim world. In addition to today’s awful news from Syria, there was Michael Slackman‘s front-pager from […]

SICKENING. Let us never again listen to the administration’s facile, self-congratulatory talk of liberating Iraqi women without raising also the question of the refugees. War always degrades women. Always. The liberation of woman during the 20th century was one of the greatest non-violent revolutions the world has ever known. But war has always operated on […]

HILLARY HATIN’. The Washington Post has a big takeout on two new books on Hillary Clinton that’s kicking up a bit of dust today. The Carl Bernstein book, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, which the Post devotes two-thirds of its story to, sounds like the more explosive and closely held […]

REPUBLICAN MEMORY LOSS SYNDROME. Via AMERICABlog, comes this hilarious spoof: –Garance Franke-Ruta

THE CHENEY BARRIER. Today in Salon, Gary Kamiya tries to come up with a theory for why Americans have not yet impeached President Bush. He argues: there’s a deeper reason why the popular impeachment movement has never taken off — and it has to do not with Bush but with the American people. Bush’s warmongering […]

“PERSONAL CAUSES”?! This paragraph in yesterday’s New York Times article on Hillary Clinton‘s 1986-1992 tenure on the Wal-Mart board really brought me up short: Fellow board members and company executives, who have not spoken publicly about her role at Wal-Mart, say Mrs. Clinton used her position to champion personal causes, like the need for more […]

THE G.O.P. EDWARDS NARRATIVE EVOLVES. It’s hard to pick out the most outrageous statement from last night’s G.O.P. debate — though Scott and Sam have pointed to some doozies — but the most politically deadly one for Democrats is already clear. Mike Huckabee‘s quip that Congress has “spent money like Edwards at a beauty shop” […]