Harold Meyerson

For the Republicans, there are two ways out of Iraq. They can either go out like Eisenhower or like Nixon. For the Republicans, there are two ways out of Iraq. They can either go out like Eisenhower or like Nixon. As the first Republican to occupy the White House since the […]

If any Americans could truly understand Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, George Bush and Karl Rove should. All three firmly believe that the successful politician must above all cultivate his base — not that any of them can point to recent successes. If any Americans could truly understand Iraqi Prime Minister […]

What was that about Syria and Iran? Since the administration had revealed in advance almost everything that the president said last night, the real news in George Bush’s speech was his elliptical threat to expand the war to Iraq’s neighbors. Nestled well into a speech whose particulars were already familiar, there […]

Sala Galant Lipschultz Burton made two critical decisions during her lifetime, the full meaning of which could not have been apparent to her at the time she made them. The first, in the early 1950s, was to marry a young lawyer and Democratic activist named Phil Burton, who was to become the […]

Gerald Ford had one of those presidencies that even historians have trouble remembering. Elected neither president nor vice president by the American people, Ford served for just two-and-a-half years before Jimmy Carter defeated him in the 1976 election. Some big things happened during Ford’s abbreviated tenure in office — chiefly, the fall of South Vietnam […]

Don’t look now, but Virginia is seceding again. Don’t look now, but Virginia is seceding again. On Sunday nine Episcopal parishes in Virginia, including the one where George Washington served as a vestryman, announced that they had voted to up and leave the U.S. Episcopal Church to protest its increasingly equal […]

Where do the Republicans’ likely 2008 presidential candidates come down on Iraq? You might think that a decent regard for the opinions of their fellow citizens, as registered in last month’s elections, would rouse them from their Bushian dreams of victory in what has become a savage intra-Islamic war where the very […]

You’ve seen the numbers and understand that America is growing steadily less white. You try to push your party, the Grand Old Party, ahead of this curve by taking a tolerant stance on immigration and making common cause with some black churches. Then you go and blow it all in a desperate […]

The meaning of the election was clear for all to see: The people plainly believed that the unified, pluralistic Iraq that the Bush administration insisted was growing stronger with each passing day actually had no future at all. The meaning of the election was clear for all to see: The people […]