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When I was a kid we had this crazy dog that used to chase cars for all he was worth. My father used to yell after him, “What the heck you gonna do with it if you catch it?!?” Given much of the recent economic news, one might say the same thing to John Kerry […]

What really happened in Vietnam? Was John Kerry a hero who saved his “Swift” boat crew from a rocket attack or a prevaricating coward who shot an unarmed man in the back? Was he wounded by enemy fire or injured by his own incompetence? Official history tells us that the Democratic presidential candidate deserves the […]

In May, Stephen Green was hard at work campaigning for a seat in Vermont’s House of Representatives when he got a phone call. The last person the 64-year-old former United Nations official, then preoccupied with health-care policy issues, expected to hear from was an FBI agent, who asked if he could come to Washington to […]

There is apparently not much to George W. Bush’s presidency except his resolve. Judging by the speeches of Sen. John McCain and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani on the Republican convention’s opening night, the president has no record whatever on matters economic, nor — remarkably for a wartime president — much of one when […]

We will shortly hear from the president himself, but the outlines of his domestic program for a second term are already all too clear. Take five key areas of economic policy — health, Social Security, energy, taxes, and the deficit. All five have this in common: In each case the administration program doesn’t really address […]

NEW YORK — I’m not sure why, because it should have been obvious by now, but one of the biggest epiphanies out of the week in New York has been the fact that while Democrats and detractors are trying to wish George W. Bush away this November, a whole lot of Republicans are thinking about […]

Quacking like a canard On Wednesday evening, Karl Rove was ushered to the roundtable of PBS, where he wiped all but angelic fingerprints off the Swift boat liars. Along the way, he repeated the canard that in his April 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ho Chi (sorry, John) Kerry called all American […]

You haven’t heard much at the Republican Convention about jobs and wages, because job growth has stalled and wages are stagnant. But you will hear about something Republicans are now calling the “Ownership Society.” The notion is to expand private ownership through more tax cuts on capital investments, tax credits for saving, and privatized Social […]

By the middle of August 2004, President George W. Bush still had not settled on a coherent second-term domestic-policy agenda, and conservative policy mavens were starting to get nervous. They’d heard the renewed talk about providing uninsured, low-income workers with tax credits to buy health insurance, part of the “ownership society” agenda Bush announced August […]

On August 30, as the Republican convention kicked off in New York City, the Log Cabin Republicans, a group representing gay and lesbian members of the GOP, began airing an ad in New York City and in cable-TV markets across the country. The ad features images of Rudy Giuliani, Ronald Reagan, and other conservative icons […]