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On September 11, 2001, the United States was hit by devastating terrorist attacks perpetrated by a transnational terrorist network. Less than a year later, it was apparent that the Bush administration wanted to invade Iraq, allegedly as part of the response. Famously, selling this agenda involved a highly deceptive effort to link the two issues. […]

Texan John Hagee has a huge following, the ear of the White House, and a theory that an invasion of Iran was foretold in the Book of Esther.

At the very heart of U.S. Middle East policy, from the war in Iraq to pressure for regime change in Iran and Syria to the spread of free-market democracy in the region, sits the 39-year-old daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney. Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney, appointed to her post in February 2005, has a tongue-twisting title: […]

National health care? Demolition and reconstruction of the tax code? A comprehensive war on poverty? Well, maybe not — yet. But if the pollsters are right and Election 2006 proves to be a dark day for the right and a bright dawn for the left, there’s plenty that a renewed progressive majority could enact immediately. […]

“Terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness.” President George W. Bush has made that statement many times. So has Vice President Dick Cheney. And Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Multiple principals endlessly repeating themselves — that’s the mark of a premium White House […]

The opportunity before the Democrats is far bigger than a few House and Senate seats if they can recognize — and seize — this unique historical moment.

One morning in 1989, Dan Cantor was honeymooning in Scotland when his new wife, Laura Markham, looked up from a newspaper article about electoral returns in a European Parliament election. The virtues of European political systems isn’t typical pillow talk between newlyweds, but Cantor and Markham were political junkies. She’d been struck by the success […]

In all the public bickering recently between Japan and China, one fact has received remarkably little attention: Japan’s continuing refusal to pay compensation to victims of its militarist-era brutality. Ever since Japan surrendered in August 1945, one of the Japanese government’s key policy objectives has been to slough off all such compensation claims. Japanese officials […]

Bad heart, errant shotgun, and Halliburton stock options in tow, Dick Cheney has ruled the White House roost for the past five years, amassing enough power to give rise to the joke that George W. Bush is “a heartbeat away from the presidency.” Yet, despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of words have been […]