Barbara Boxer

  • Senate finally taking up cap-and-trade bill

    After a long delay, legislation to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions is announced; passing it might not be easy
  • Anonymous tip: Barbara Boxer is a bullying shrew!

    Unnamed sources claim personal flaws will keep the senator from passing a climate change bill. (Sotomayor, anyone?)
  • On warming, relations between GOP, Dems stay cool

    There's no era of post-partisanship to be found in the Senate's debate over global warming.
  • Barbara Boxer aide charged in porn case

    A "high-level" aide to California Sen. Barbara Boxer was charged last week with possessing and distributing child pornography.
  • A new front in Berkeley vs. the Marine Corps

    The U.S. Senate!
  • As California burns, the right fumes over Boxer

    But what did the state's senator actually say?
  • "We are facing a planetary emergency"

    At a Senate hearing, former Vice President Al Gore gives his recommendations on how to stop global warming, and faces some harsh questioning.
  • Penalty Boxer

    California Sen. Barbara Boxer gets ripped for pointing out that Condoleezza Rice does not have military-age family members.
  • Sen. Schwarzenegger?

    He can't be elected president, but he could run against Barbara Boxer in 2010.
  • Either you are with us or you are with Donald Rumsfeld

    In the wake of the defense secretary's "appeasers" speech, Boxer hopes to jam Republicans with the choice.
  • Outflanked on Iraq?

    There may well be a troop drawdown before November, but the Democrats won't get any credit for it.
  • Democrats debate when to leave Iraq

    Republicans cry "cut and run."
  • The good news about Bolton

    Even if he's ultimately confirmed, those who spoke out against him have signaled to the world that he doesn't represent all Americans -- and ensured he won't wield a big stick.
  • Right Hook

    Christian conservatives threaten to take down Bush if he doesn't deliver a same-sex marriage ban. Plus: NBC's Brian Williams lauds Limbaugh; O'Reilly says Sen. Boxer is out to get "granny."
  • Boxer's rebellion

    As the GOP celebrates, the junior senator from California emerges as a fierce -- and lonely -- voice of opposition.
  • Terrorist threat or political hype?

    Top Bush administration officials called the bust of arms dealer Hemant Lakhani last week a major blow against terrorism. Security experts are skeptical.
  • Bush's do-nothing plan for airline security

    When it comes to protecting passenger jets from a terrorist's shoulder-launched missile, the White House is taking a bargain-basement approach.
  • Splintered, disorganized and incoherent

    After a series of compromises and miscalculations, the Democrats find themselves with no influence at all in the war debate.
  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2001
  • Women of the year: Talking on eggs

    Liddy Dole and Jewel? Katie Couric and Naomi Wolf? Glamour magazine's annual awards ceremony was an odd-couple omelet.
  • John Wayne Bobbitt: From chopping block to auction block

    Photos you don't want to see of the organ you're sick of hearing about; Mrs. Artist Formerly Known As reveals hubby's pet name; Gary Hart's advice for Gore. Plus: Billy Campbell's sex scenes make his mom "a little uncomfortable."
  • The kickoff to Campaign 2000?

    A California congressional primary could be a referendum on gun control, Latino politics, union power -- or on who knows how to turn out 12,000 votes.
  • Who harassed whom?

    The former chief of staff to Sen. Max Baucus claims he sexually harassed her, then fired her, but the senator tells an entirely different story -- that she was relentlessly abusing his staff.
  • What did Democrats sacrifice to win gun control?

    The Republicans got a Draconian juvenile justice bill liberals had been determined -- until last month -- to defeat.
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