Jake Tapper

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  • The brains behind Bush

    A new book pokes superficially at Karl Rove, the "turd blossom" who orchestrated George W. Bush's presidential campaign and the GOP's November sweep.
    By Jake Tapper January 21, 2003

  • The Salon Interview: John Edwards

    The 2004 hopeful tells Salon why he thinks he should be president -- and how George W. Bush is "the opposite of me."
    By Jake Tapper January 14, 2003

  • One last surprise

    Lieberman heard from a friend, confidants from CNN. Apparently, only the Gore family knew when the most famous presidential also-ran decided to walk away from politics.
    By Jake Tapper December 17, 2002

  • The real Trent Lott

    A leading Mississippi segregationist says his old friend shares his racist views and his recantation is bogus.
    By Jake Tapper December 13, 2002

  • Lott's amnesia

    The senator says he can't fully recall Thurmond's racist presidential run. Here's a refresher course: A 1948 ballot decrying "anti-lynching" legislation, and a letter to Lott from a racist supporter.
    By Jake Tapper December 12, 2002

  • The Salon Interview: Bill Maher

    The political satirist talks about the 9/11 quote that got him fired from ABC, his new HBO show and why Bush is losing the war on terror.
    By Jake Tapper December 11, 2002

  • Sinéad was right

    Ten years after ripping up a photo of the pope to protest sexual abuse in the Catholic Church -- and destroying her career -- Siniad O'Connor returns to talk about her new album of Irish folk, her kids and why she sympathizes with America.
    By Jake Tapper October 12, 2002

  • Brains 1, Barbie 0

    The inside story of how a Harvard law student beat out her more bodacious sisters for the Miss America crown.
    By Jake Tapper September 25, 2002

  • A post-9/11 American nightmare

    Garad Jama was branded a terrorist. His business was shuttered, his assets frozen. He couldn't support his family. Nine months later the U.S. government said, "Never mind."
    By Jake Tapper September 4, 2002

  • Andrew Cuomo's attitude problem

    He was supposed to be the Democrats' best chance to defeat New York Gov. George Pataki in November, except for one small problem -- people just didn't like him.
    By Jake Tapper September 3, 2002

  • Bears, bulls -- and bull

    The president goes to Wall Street to lecture on bidness ethics, as questions persist about his own corporate past.
    By Jake Tapper July 10, 2002

  • Al Gore's rehabilitation tour

    The same awkward Gore struggles to excite a crowd of young Manhattanites, under the scrutiny of skeptics in his own party.
    By Jake Tapper June 28, 2002

  • Bushed!

    George Bush, scholar of ancient Grecian! A White House staffer reveals that his boss has mastered George Eliot, Tocqueville, Aristotle and Wordsworth -- and if you believe that, you can kiss my Posterior Analytics.
    By Jake Tapper June 20, 2002

  • Keeping the new black candidates down

    When young African-American challengers face off against their trailblazing predecessors, they often get called pawns of whitey.
    By Jake Tapper June 18, 2002

  • Gary Hart

    The former senator and presidential candidate discusses the proposed Department of Homeland Security, why the head of the CIA should've resigned, revamping the FBI and the media's obsession with "the love lives of movie stars and politicians."
    By Jake Tapper June 14, 2002

  • Tom Daschle's little MTV problem

    A "Real World" star's sexual hijinks cause some grief for her brother -- a Daschle speechwriter whose colleagues are decidedly unamused.
    By Jake Tapper April 4, 2002

  • Hybrid cars: They're here, but nobody's buying

    Everyone from stars to greens to President Bush seems to be hyping gas-and-electric cars. So why do we keep buying SUVs?
    By Jake Tapper March 11, 2002

  • A Democratic senator goes nuclear on the White House

    Nevada's Harry Reid talks with Salon about why he joined the GAO lawsuit against Dick Cheney and why he called George W. Bush a liar.
    By Jake Tapper March 1, 2002

  • Skilling's return engagement

    Hauled before the Senate, Congress' favorite Enron whipping boy rails against his persecutors, and defends Ken Lay.
    By Jake Tapper February 27, 2002

  • Reforms pass House

    After challenges from the House leadership, and mixed messages from the White House, campaign reformers finally win.
    By Jake Tapper February 14, 2002

  • Unruffled Lay

    Facing down cameras and a hostile Senate committee, the ex-Enron chief was the picture of aloofness, right down to his monogrammed cuffs.
    By Jake Tapper February 13, 2002

  • Making a Skilling

    Anyone who thinks Enron executives can't be all bad didn't see them before Congress Thursday.
    By Jake Tapper February 8, 2002

  • Enron's last-minute bonus orgy

    Days before filing for bankruptcy, the scandal-ridden company rewarded some executives with million-dollar bonuses as laid-off workers were denied severance packages.
    By Jake Tapper February 8, 2002

  • Enron execs blamed

    Internal investigation faults corporate culture for "pushing the limits" -- and confirms a Salon report of an amazing get-rich-quick scheme.
    By Jake Tapper February 3, 2002

  • Did Enron inflate California energy costs?

    Western Democrats demand answers during a Senate hearing.
    By Jake Tapper January 30, 2002
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