Gary Hart

The haunting of the Democrats The haunting of the Democrats

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.
  • Billy the Greek

    Raising funds for his run at the presidency, Bill Richardson has an unlikely role model -- Michael Dukakis.
  • The new Caesars

    The Bush administration's empire building is trampling on who we are and were always meant to be -- a republic.
  • A Paul Revere no one wants to hear from

    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?
  • Condi Rice's other wake-up call

    Former Sen. Gary Hart says he, too, warned Rice about an imminent terror attack on two occasions before 9/11.
  • Rethinking the party

    It's time for some fresh faces -- Democratic strategists who urge more boldness and less caution.
  • Joe Conason's Journal

    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.
  • My three dads

    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.
  • "We predicted it"

    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?
  • Donna Rice Hughes says enough is enough

    Gary Hart's alleged former flame now focuses on banning Web smut -- and keeping her finances straight.
  • Where the New Democrats went wrong

    Gary Hart says Clinton and Gore abandoned their base to expand the party, but says he'll support Gore anyway.
  • 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."
  • Live through this Saturday night

    Courtney Love's directorial debut -- in glorious plaid! Patenstein? Count Patula? The Wolfpat? Pollsters say Buchanan's more trick than treat.
  • My dinner with Bulworth

    The Minnesota adman who helped Jesse Ventura become governor advises Warren Beatty on how he might claim the White House.
  • A vast left-wing conspiracy?

    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.
  • If this boat's a-rockin'...

    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!
  • Aging hormones

    Clinton's raging hormones offend the aging Beltway Catholic press corps.
  • Newsreal: The horny dilemma

    Do we really want a sexually frustrated president -- or is the Clinton scandal an opportunity to redefine the tyrannical institution of marriage?

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