The Bush motto seems to be not that the public has a right to know how its government operates, but that it's none of the public's damned business.
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Apparent gaps in White House e-mail archives coincide with dates in late 2003 and early 2004 when the administration was struggling...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
HilOba have almost totally stopped pummeling Bush and his policy shambles, and have squandered time and heat sniping and jawing at each other on the pettiest of non-issues.
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
Photograph copyright © 2008 Rebecca Wilson President Bush's first short journey as president was an uncomfortable one for him, and it appears he...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, took aim at Hillary Clinton on Monday, saying her criticism of Barack Obama's stance on the...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics
It's taken a terribly long time for Rice -- no Mid-East expert either before, during, or after her 7th year in this administration -- to understand that "elections" do not constitute "democracy."
Think Progress | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, former White House spokesperson Tony Snow was interviewed on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Maher discussed how woefully unprepared the ...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
The Hillary haters got a hard lesson in NH: It's risky, no dangerous, to predict a knockout of a seasoned political fighter before the first bell even sounds.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
The jury is still way out on just how many inflated expectations Obama can fulfill. But there are glaring clues as to how much change he can or will even try to make.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
The scariest thing about Paul is that millions seem to agree that his off beat views, especially on race matters, make sense.
ABC News | Justin Rood | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
A powerful senator says he is still waiting for the Bush administration to respond to inquiries he made last month following reports that American wom...
Washington Times | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
President Bush is benefiting from a Karl Rove-free White House and the lower-profile approach of his successor, who high-ranking Republican Party acti...
Politico | Patrick O'Connor | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics
Candi Wolff on Friday concludes her three-year run as the president's top congressional liaison after helping George W. Bush navigate the rockiest str...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel have been conducting regular, private phone conversations over the past few mon...
Lloyd Garver | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
For quite a while, many of us have been disturbed by the shredding of documents and the erasures of tapes by the current administration. Yesterday's h...
AP | PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
In a direct challenge to President Bush, a House panel said Wednesday it has prepared subpoenas to force CIA officials to testify about the agency's s...
AP | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
Thick black smoke billowed from a fire Wednesday on the White House compound in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The blaze appeared to be lo...
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
Perhaps if others looked at events from the president's perspective, they'd think twice before laying blame.
23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
A federal judge ruled on Monday that White House log books are public records. The decision is considered a blow to the Bush administration, which is ...
Jason Daley | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
Here, presented for the first time, is the Secret Service log from an average day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Associated Press | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes for being alone with a man at the time of the atta...
Washington Post | Michael Abramowitz and Peter Baker | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics
With violence on the decline in Iraq but on the upswing in Afghanistan, President Bush is facing new pressure from the U.S. military to accelerate a t...
Boston Globe | Charlie Savage | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics
The Bush administration is pushing to take control of the promotions of military lawyers, escalating a conflict over the independence of uniformed att...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
The whole Obama flap over cocaine (fueled by the Clinton camp) needs to get shot down right away, before any Republicans consider using it to attack Obama. And it's so pathetically easy to shoot this one down.
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that re...
Last night, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
I must admit that listening to McCain answer Pastor Rick Warren's questions...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
RENO, Nev. — So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Bob Franken | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics