By encouraging Joe McCarthy and his red baiting tactics in the 1950s, conservatives embarrassed themselves. Emboldened by new evidence, they’re going to embarrass themselves again.Â
Joshua Marshall
Joshua Micah Marshall is the editor of Talking Points Memo and a senior correspondent for the Prospect.
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Gore Or Bradley
Bill Bradley bailed out on some of the big political battles of the 1990s. Is that what’s behind the former New Jersey senator’s surprising strength?
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Elephantiasis
Republicans spent a generation bludgeoning Democrats with those dreaded “wedge issues.” Maybe it’s time to give the GOP some of its own medicine.
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Clinton-Hating
Beginning in Arkansas when Bill Clinton first decided to run for president, a cluster of the future president’s die-hard opponents set about trying to derail his quest. They plied eager journalists with tales of Clinton’s immoralities and illegalities. Aficionados of the Clinton scandal stories will recognize many of the names. Cliff Jackson: Clinton’s contemporary and […]
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Lieberman’s Coattails
August 10, 2000 — Getting Their Money’s Worth : On August 3rd the Hotline reported the results of a new poll that showed that a clear majority of the public (65 percent) believes that the government’s antitrust case against Microsoft is “politically motivated by competitors” and that roughly twice as many […]
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Letter from a Mad Political Junkie
October 26th, 2000 — The slippery, see-sawing polls have created a volatile and manic environment in Washington. This week we go to the Washington Memo mail bag to get a taste of the whip-sawed emotions around the capital. Our featured letter this week comes from a political junkie who would only identify himself as Mr. […]
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Bush Scenario Watch
November 17th, 2000 — Bush Scenario Watch Let’s say George W. Bush, by hook or by crook, becomes our next president. Yes, we’ve heard that either president will have to tread carefully and nail down his legitimacy (such as it is) by cleaving to the center. Okay, we’ve all heard that. But where does that […]
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Will Free Speech Get Tangled in the Net?
When the Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act, cyberlibertarians breathed a sigh of relief. But keeping government out of the censorship business may not be enough to assure freedom online — censorship may now be privatized.
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Year of the Scapegoat
T he near-comic conclusion of the Wen Ho Lee case splattered more than enough egg to cover the faces of much of Washington. It’s a media story, a federal law enforcement story, a civil liberties story, perhaps even a discrimination story. But more than anything else, the Lee case and its awkward denouement are, or […]
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Taiwan on the Brink
Speaking to a German radio interviewer last July, Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui sparked a diplomatic fire storm with three seemingly innocuous words: Taiwan, he announced, would henceforth treat contacts with mainland China as “state-to-state” relations. The Chinese government responded to this announcement with a furious barrage of invectives and a rapidly escalating chorus of threats […]
