Precedent George Bush
Bush's term in office will be remembered for the precedents it set, particularly in relation to the presidential power, and the separation of powers between the three branches of U.S. government.
Bush's term in office will be remembered for the precedents it set, particularly in relation to the presidential power, and the separation of powers between the three branches of U.S. government.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
President Bush is the most unpopular president of all time -- literally. But if you keep losing to the worst, what does that make you?
Julian E. Zelizer and Bruce Schulman | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
We seem to be back to the summer of 1973, although in some respects Bush's extension of executive power has been much more dramatic than anything in that period.
Emily Berman and Aziz Huq | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
The executive is assigned the tools to respond to danger -- which also makes it the branch that poses the greatest risk to our own liberties and the branch in greatest need of oversight.
Paul Krassner | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
Now that there's a commemorative stamp honoring Ruben Salazar, it's appropriate to recall the context in which he was killed.
New York Observer | Felix Gillette | Posted 04.23.2008 | Media
"This is not your father's Watergate," said James Rosen. Mr. Rosen, an on-air D.C.-based correspondent for Fox News was speaking to NYTV on Monday af...
Shahid Buttar | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
Controversial government programs are theoretically restrained by checks and balances, but neither Congress nor the courts have a way to check a secret program.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.19.2008 | Home
The scandal this time is that there's no scandal. The leak John McCain should be addressing in New Orleans is the one at the 17th Street Canal Floodwall, the same one that was leaking before Katrina.
Art Brodsky | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Until people regain trust in what they read, the long, slow decline will continue regardless of the medium through which information is conveyed.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
It's time for Congress to grow a backbone and send the president a clear message: either step in line with the rule of law and heed the voice of "we the people" or face impeachment hearings.
Sean Carman | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
Watergate was invented by the liberal media as retaliation for the great success of Nixon's law and order presidency.
Dan Agin | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
In politics, we don't remember enough. We forget how much of American political history is a history of con-men selling us "snake oil."
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Chris Weigant | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics