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Since the primary season, Republicans have sought to portray Democrats as single-minded Bush haters with no positive agenda of their own. Marc Racicot, chairman of Bush-Cheney ’04, succinctly summed up this theme in an e-mail to Bush supporters back in December. “They are making this one of the nastiest, vicious and negative campaigns in history,” […]

Nobody here but us good cops On most channels, the Republican funfest shines forth as a genial display of red-white-and-blue, on-message sincerity. Everyone is so earnest, everyone exudes optimism, all virtues are on parade. Only good cops pass through these pearly gates. When Senator Lindsey Graham introduced John McCain, saying that McCain had always respected […]

As America’s reputation in the world dwindles to pathetic new lows, and with the United States seeking international support in Iraq and in the fight against terrorism, one might think this an inopportune moment to bait some of our closest foreign allies into unnecessary diplomatic rows. And yet, undeterred, Republican Representatives Tom DeLay and George […]

Tell me that Rudolph Giuliani did a good job on September 11 and you’ll get no argument from me. Say he was, all things considered, a good mayor and, despite my disagreements with him on some matters, you’ll get no argument from me. If we were in the middle of a presidential campaign focused on […]

It’s hard to fathom that a small journal like the OccidentalQuarterly, which publishes articles defending the science of eugenics, claiming that “neoconservatism is indeed a Jewish intellectual and political movement,” contending that Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist pressured into “an unnecessary war,” and saying that the United States made a grave error in declaring […]

John Kerry is a flip-flopper. In 2001, for example, he voted for the No Child Left Behind Act, but now he says that federal education spending should be further increased. In 2002, he voted to give the president authority to threaten the use of force in order to get United Nations inspectors back in Iraq, […]

During his convention speech in New York later this week, George W. Bush will finally unveil his agenda for the next four years. I’m guessing that Bush will call on Congress to pass some of his initiatives that remain stalled. In other words, his plan for a second term could look a lot like his […]

The United for Peace and Justice march in New York yesterday, the largest of the protests planned for the week of the Republican national convention, was nothing if not a forum for creativity. From signs reading “George W. Bush: Worse than Rod Stewart” to an inflatable pink “corporate” pig floating over Seventh Avenue (looking more […]

A plastic sign outside a polling place in Andes Central High School on the Yankton Sioux reservation was clear and concise. “Photo ID required,” it read. The only problem, said Charon Asetoyer, executive director of the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center in Lake Andes, South Dakota, was that the sign was illegal. Sitting […]

Once upon a time, two queens reigned over the land of HomeEcistan: one the hooting, shambling, messy Queen of Light, who demystified the art of French cooking for the home cook, and one the icy Queen of Darkness, who made the simplest of domestic tasks into an impossible, fetishistic, bonsai-pruning nightmare. The two kept a […]