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The elected wing of the GOP knows better. The entertainment wing -- Rush, Coulter et al. -- has a different agenda.
By Gene Lyons
June 4, 2009
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The housing collapse came about because we want more than we can afford.
By Gene Lyons
May 28, 2009
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What? CIA operatives concealed the truth about torture from a San Francisco liberal? No!
By Gene Lyons
May 21, 2009
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George W. Bush may have started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it's up to the new president to resolve them.
By Gene Lyons
May 14, 2009
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The more the GOP complains, the better Obama looks.
By Gene Lyons
May 7, 2009
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President Obama must fight back against the former vice president by launching investigations into the Bush administration's interrogation policies.
By Gene Lyons
April 30, 2009
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Judge Jay S. Bybee provided the legal framework for torture to the Bush administration. If he had even a particle of decency, he'd resign.
By Gene Lyons
April 23, 2009
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They're both outmoded business models, and they're both in trouble.
By Gene Lyons
April 16, 2009
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It was the wisest decision of my life -- and not just because she tolerates cheerleader ogling and other male vices.
By Gene Lyons
December 5, 2005
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It's bad enough that the New York Times got Hillary Clinton's role in the Madison S&L case wrong back in 1996, but how do they explain doing it again, four years later?
By Joe Conason
April 11, 2000
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The first lady's lost Whitewater billing records were supposed to be the smoking gun that would lead to her indictment. Instead, they corroborated her claims of innocence.
By Joe Conason and Gene Lyons
March 6, 2000
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How a pack of conservative lawyers used Matt Drudge and Clinton-accuser Kathleen Willey to scuttle a deal in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
By Joe Conason and Gene Lyons
March 4, 2000
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Kenneth Starr's key Whitewater witness turned his government-funded loan company into an ATM machine for his politically connected friends. When the feds caught on, he tried to blame President Clinton.
By Joe Conason and Gene Lyons
March 3, 2000
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Richard Mellon Scaife and other leaders in the effort to bring down President Clinton were driven by ideology. Meet Larry Nichols and Larry Case, who were in it for the money.
By Joe Conason and Gene Lyons
March 2, 2000
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There was a plot to get President Clinton, argues Jeffrey Toobin. It just wasn't the one you think.
By Gary Kamiya
January 18, 2000
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A close reading of the Starr Report shows that the independent counsel cut several legal corners too many when laying his impeachment trap.
By Gene Lyons
October 5, 1998
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Kenneth Starr says his only concern is the truth. Then why is he giving fre passes to people who have lied and broken the law?
By Gene Lyons
April 7, 1998
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A reporter who has been following the Whitewater investigation
from the start finds Kenneth Starr giving a free pass to people who have lied and broken the law, so long as they testify against President Clinton.
By Gene Lyons
March 30, 1998
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How a manic-depressive's quest for revenge finally killed him,
but not before he embroiled the country in a tortuous six-year quest called
the Whitewater investigation.
By Gene Lyons
March 16, 1998
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By Andrew Ross
January 22, 1998
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An Arkansas newspaper columnist who has followed the fortunes and alleged scandals of President Clinton for years reviews a new book by a British journalist who believes that the president is guilty of every crime his extremist opponents accuse him of.
By Gene Lyons
December 23, 1997
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The latest member of the Paula Jones legal team is a private detective whose job is to run down the sleaziest recycled rumors about the president's alleged sexual escapades in Arkansas.
By Jonathan Broder
November 13, 1997
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A Salon roundtable
By Martin Gross, Gene Lyons, and Suzanne Garment
January 27, 1996
Sotomayor a "racist"? Really?
America's addiction to debt
Playing the Pelosi card
They're Obama's wars now
Keep on whining, Republicans
Cheney's painful war for torture
The shaming of America
Why newspapers are like department stores
I married the coach's daughter
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