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As the incoming president introduced his economic team and said there isn't "a minute to waste" in putting them to work, ther...

After seven years of Musharraf's shell game, the stakes are getting serious as American Special Ops forces are carrying out ground assau...

Everybody's favorite rent-a-goon service is going out of business in Iraq even before our troops leave. After bad publicity and audits ...

After what must have been awkward conversations in Kabul with President Hamid Karzai, who he last week said "has not gotten out of the ...

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been walking the streets of Baghdad doling out cash to passersby. Compared to the American millions that...

In San Francisco, there is a new ballot initiative to name a sewage plant for him, but George W. Bush's farewell gift to the environmen...

His belated discovery that the Bush Administration was a "permanent campaign" reflects the naiveté of a young man who started out...

As inured as we may be to the flow of bloody news from that part of the world, the death of Benazir Bhutto comes as a shocking reminder of ...

In the era of Bush, Cheney and broken government, just in time for reruns of "It's a Wonderful Life," we get a Capraesque mome...

When fire breaks out in a mental hospital, the paranoids are the first to respond--they always expect someone to do terrible things. That bi...

On The Nation 's web site, Bill Moyers talks about his father who never made over $100 a week in his life and voted for Franklin Rooseve...

The man who gave a voice to unheard Americans is speaking up today against illegal listening in on them. In a New York Times Op Ed, 95-year...

If he keeps moving right at this rate, Rudy Giuliani is in danger of falling off the edge of the flat earth. The knight who drove criminals ...

If a suspected terrorist mis-dialed your number any time in the past two years, the FBI is on your case and, if the phone company had had th...

He did it this morning, without comment or news coverage, an act that proves George Bush to be, depending on your politics, either the most ...

When George Bush goes literally dumb, something must be afoot. At yesterday’s news conference, he talked about Iraq, Iran and North Korea, b...

The Bush Administration keeps recalling the cliché about the kid who kills his parents and pleads for mercy because he’s an orphan. Now Repu...

The Vice-President of the United States is packaging his attack on Iran. Unfazed by the disaster in Iraq, Cheney’s Neo-Cons are “rolling out...

In his complex commentaries, the former Fed chairman always seemed the ultimate anti-Groucho, immune to pith and irony. But ironies abound. ...

That morning, when the second airliner hit the Twin Towers, life changed for every American, starting with the inane man who was reading “Th...