The party is caught in an excruciating Catch-22. Whether it chooses the establishment figure or the liberal reformer, history offers many paths to defeat.
By Andrew O'Hehir Apr 21, 2008
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Raising funds for his run at the presidency, Bill Richardson has an unlikely role model -- Michael Dukakis.
By Michael Scherer
March 15, 2007
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The Bush administration's empire building is trampling on who we are and were always meant to be -- a republic.
By Gary Hart
August 19, 2004
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I co-chaired a national security panel that warned the Bush administration the terrorists were coming. Why hasn't the 9/11 commission called any of us to testify?
By Gary Hart
April 6, 2004
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Former Sen. Gary Hart says he, too, warned Rice about an imminent terror attack on two occasions before 9/11.
By David Talbot
April 2, 2004
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It's time for some fresh faces -- Democratic strategists who urge more boldness and less caution.
By Arianna Huffington
November 11, 2004
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Former Sen. Gary Hart says President Bush "didn't do his job" before 9/11. Plus reader responses to Bush's latest baffling reason for the war in Iraq.
July 16, 2003
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Kevin Sweeney never really knew his father, who died young. In the memoir "Father Figures," he describes picking a trio of replacements to teach him how to be a man.
By King Kaufman
May 27, 2003
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A bipartisan commission warned the White House and Congress that a bloody attack on U.S. soil could be imminent. Why didn't anyone listen?
By Jake Tapper
September 12, 2001
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Gary Hart's alleged former flame now focuses on banning Web smut -- and keeping her finances straight.
By Amy Debra Feldman
September 12, 2000
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Gary Hart says Clinton and Gore abandoned their base to expand the party, but says he'll support Gore anyway.
By Fred Branfman
August 15, 2000
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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."
By Amy Reiter
November 9, 1999
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Courtney Love's directorial debut -- in glorious plaid! Patenstein? Count Patula? The Wolfpat? Pollsters say Buchanan's more trick than treat.
By Amy Reiter
October 29, 1999
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The Minnesota adman who helped Jesse Ventura become governor advises Warren Beatty on how he might claim the White House.
By Jake Tapper
September 2, 1999
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Will Dubya get ground up in the rumor mill? A "clumsy" remark by a senator may have given birth to a brand-new bouncing baby rumor.
By Amy Reiter
August 24, 1999
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Jerry Hall and Paul Allen makin' waves in French waters? Oasis members get good and gobsmacked. The cut-ups at the K.C. Star take clowning too far. Plus: Money talks, "Bulworth" walks, Beatty for prez!
By Amy Reiter
August 11, 1999
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Clinton's raging hormones offend the aging Beltway Catholic press corps.
By Mollie Dickenson
August 25, 1998
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Do we really want a sexually frustrated president -- or is the Clinton scandal an opportunity to redefine the tyrannical institution of marriage?
By Fred Branfman
February 10, 1998
The haunting of the Democrats
Billy the Greek
The new Caesars
A Paul Revere no one wants to hear from
Condi Rice's other wake-up call
Joe Conason's Journal
My three dads
"We predicted it"
Donna Rice Hughes says enough is enough
War Room
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald