Harold Meyerson

The specter that Dick Cheney wants stalking the consciousness of Americans as they go to vote is the threat of a nuclear or chemical weapon being smuggled into the center of an American city. He called up that image twice last night, and he surely wants Americans to believe that if terrorists are about to […]

“They can run but they can’t hide,” the great heavyweight champ Joe Louis used to say of his hapless opponents, but up until last night, George W. Bush was doing a pretty fair job of both running and hiding. Indeed, to a considerable degree, he was running ahead because Karl Rove had hidden him from […]

Election Day approaches, which means it is time for House Republicans to run fully amok. Today, the House will take up a bill by Indiana Republican Mark Souder to lift the gun controls in the District of Columbia. Souder’s bill legalizes ownership of semiautomatic weapons and armor-piercing ammunition. How this would increase security around the […]

To an immigrant, Arnold Schwarzenegger told delegates at the Republican convention last month, there is no country “more welcoming than the United States of America.” And most of the time, that’s true. But it wasn’t true last week in Miami Beach, where the Department of Homeland Security attempted to ban a nonpartisan voter registration operation […]

To the extent that the American public has any image of him at all, House Speaker Denny Hastert seems to be an avuncular presence in an otherwise thuggish town, the good cop to Tom DeLay’s bad one, the gavel rather than the hammer. But seeming more nuanced than DeLay is about as low a bar […]

I’ve been confused for some time about the president’s economic vision, as, I suspect, have many of you. After months of close textual analysis, though, I think I’ve narrowed down the source of that confusion. It’s the word “opportunity,” or, more precisely, what the president means when he says it. “This changed world can be […]

There is apparently not much to George W. Bush’s presidency except his resolve. Judging by the speeches of Sen. John McCain and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani on the Republican convention’s opening night, the president has no record whatever on matters economic, nor — remarkably for a wartime president — much of one when […]

NEW YORK — On Eighth Avenue Wednesday afternoon, New York union members have gathered to tell the president what they think of him and his economy and his war (and that just begins the list). But the most indignant reaction I encounter from the assembled workers comes from Harold Aken, a firefighter from Rye, New […]

ELYRIA, Ohio — In theory, Dan Imbrogno shouldn’t be a voter George W. Bush has to worry about. Imbrogno, a lifelong Republican, Ohioan, and business executive, looks like central casting’s idea of the model Bush voter. Imbrogno is president and chief executive of Ohio Screw, a precision-parts manufacturer located in this working-class suburb of Cleveland. […]