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Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party just as the Senate was completing action to approve President Bush’s tax cut with only slight modifications. While Jeffords’s switch will help the Democrats slow down Bush’s juggernaut, it comes too late to block his single most revolutionary victory. Bush will now pay dearly for governing as if […]

Just when you thought Slate‘s book, George W. Bushisms, couldn’t possibly sell any more copies, the President has done it again. According to the Washington Post, a vacationing Bush was surprised on Tuesday when asked by reporters about the plans of Panos Zavos, a Kentucky scientist, and Severino Antinori, an Italian fertility doctor, to clone […]

George W. Bush, the only presidential son since John Quincy Adams to serve as chief executive, could emulate the Adams family in one other respect. Like Adams senior and Bush senior, W. could well be a one-term president. Recent polls bring nasty news for Bush. His approval rating has plummeted. Despite the generally favorable media […]

Several individuals told federal investigators in 1998 and 1999 that one of the overseers of the Arkansas Project had recruited Theodore B. Olson, President Bush’s nominee for Solicitor General, to provide legal representation for David L. Hale, the Whitewater Independent Counsel’s chief witness against Bill Clinton. During his recent confirmation hearings, Olson himself claimed to […]

The New York Times The seemingly interminable Clinton scandals are not the Democrats’ biggest problem, and merely distancing themselves from Bill Clinton (or Hillary Rodham Clinton) won’t restore the party’s soul. The Democratic establishment in Washington is no longer connected to the grass roots. The national party is nothing but a fund-raising machine. Terry McAuliffe, […]

Two-and-a-half years ago, the German Green Party went through a tortured internal debate over whether to endorse German participation in the Kosovo war. For many Greens, especially veterans of the antinuclear campaigns of the 1970s, the thought of supporting militarism, on no matter how small a scale, was acutely painful. But throughout the Kosovo quarrel, […]

Contrary to popular belief, it’s rare to catch a politician in a moment of perfect hypocrisy. But the ongoing Senate fight over George W. Bush’s nominees to the federal bench is providing many such opportunities. “You don’t get absolute power to utilize your own personal prejudice without any justification to block even a consideration of […]

It was Ronald Reagan, that old trouper, who first started using as human props ordinary Americans who would supposedly benefit from administration policies. We became accustomed to seeing John and Mary Doe, the putative beneficiaries of tax cuts and regulatory guttings, seated in the gallery at State of the Union addresses and other political events. […]