Outside the National Press Club on the morning of August 3, the Washington summer was as hot and oppressive as ever. But inside, Warren Rudman and Lee Hamilton, two grizzled veterans of the national-security world, called for cool at the launch event for a new group dedicated to ending “the partisan rancor in Washington” on […]
Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias is a senior editor at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a former Prospect staff writer, and the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
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Take The Fight From The Enemy
What better way to celebrate the return of the war on terrorism after the brief interlude of the “global struggle against violent extremism” than by gazing once again at America’s all-too-literal war in Iraq. Polling released this weekend on the Newsweek Web site shows that 61 percent of the population is unhappy with our current […]
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Profiles Encouraged
Every once in a long while, there comes along a brave white person — employed by other white persons, writing primarily for an audience of white people, in a country dominated by white people — with the courage to demand that national policy be shifted in a manner more favorable to the interests of white […]
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Just Say No
As just about everyone seems to agree, John Roberts is a shrewd choice to serve as Sandra Day O’Connor’s replacement on the Supreme Court. By all accounts, he’s a smart man and a clever lawyer, and he has no record of nut-job rhetoric or obviously mistaken decisions. He is, in other words, a tough nominee […]
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Follow the Documents
As intriguing as the prospect of seeing Karl Rove sent to the pokey is, I must admit that on one level I don’t really care who the guilty parties in the Plame leak case are. Whoever did the deed ought to be found out and punished, because that’s what you do, but it will make […]
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The Fraud Caucus
On the evening of May 23, a bipartisan group of 14 senators emerged from a series of semi-secret meetings to announce that they’d brokered a deal ending the standoff over Democratic filibusters of several of President Bush’s judicial nominees. The group’s seven Republicans agreed to vote against the “nuclear option” and to kill the nominations […]
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London Bawling
If it’s true that conventional wisdom, like quick-dry cement, usually hardens within 48 hours of an event — think of the January 1998 Lewinsky revelations and the immediate pronouncements that the matter would lead to impeachment — the reactions to the July 7 London terrorist bombings provide a case study in how the right seeks […]
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Originalist Sin
This year, Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement hung like a cloud over the July 4 holiday, and we should expect the ghosts of the founding generation that made America’s revolution and wrote its constitution to hang over the months to come as her replacement is confirmed. O’Connor was, despite the protestations of the abortion-obsessed extremists of […]
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Conquering by Dividing
When a country is locked in a protracted struggle with a vicious foe, its political leaders normally seek to emphasize the depth of their nation’s commitment to the cause. Winston Churchill set the gold standard for this brand of rhetoric with his famous proclamation, “[w]e shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight […]
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Playoff Punditry
After their team won two games at home to open the NBA Finals against the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio fans were ready to proclaim the Spurs the ultimate force in professional basketball. Manu Ginobili, the Spurs’ dynamic shooting guard, was a superstar for the ages. Comparisons to Michael Jordan got tossed around for the first […]
