As Biden and Clinton say goodbye, the Senate's Democratic majority girds for ... collegiality.
By Mike Madden Jan 16, 2009
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Willie Horton hears a who: Beck, Limbaugh are the latest in a long and undistinguished American tradition
By Vincent Rossmeier
July 31, 2009
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Yes, he was hellspawn, but the left owes a great debt to the late, unlamented (racist, homophobic) senator.
By James Hannaham
July 11, 2008
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His politics and his methods live on -- among liberals as well as conservatives.
By Michael Lind
July 11, 2008
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There's a reason why so many Americans can't feel charitable about the passing of the virulent warrior of the Right.
By Ed Kilgore
July 7, 2008
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Former Republican N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86.
By Associated Press
July 4, 2008
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A Salon/CIR investigation reveals that Terrence Boyle, a key circuit court nominee touted by the White House and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, ruled in multiple cases involving corporations in which he held investments.
By Will Evans
May 1, 2006
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John Bolton, a man who doesn't believe in diplomacy and thinks the U.S. should be the only permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, gets yet another chance to wield his stick.
By Sidney Blumenthal
March 10, 2005
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Did the Bush administration allow a network of right-wing Republicans to foment a violent coup in Haiti?
By Max Blumenthal
July 16, 2004
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How President Bush sent a message with his court appointments.
By Jack Bass
March 24, 2004
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Small Internet radio broadcasters on the brink of financial disaster have won some breathing room, thanks to the senator from North Carolina.
By F. Timothy Martin
November 19, 2002
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While Colin Powell tries to present a kinder, gentler America to the world, his hard-line underling John Bolton is pushing an America-über-alles doctrine -- and winning.
By Ian Williams
May 10, 2002
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David Broder attacked reporters for ignoring Helms' racist career in covering his retirement last week. So why was Broder mum on the topic when Helms was riding high?
By Eric Boehlert
August 31, 2001
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Republicans are now playing the race card to try to sell Social Security privatization.
By Joe Conason
August 28, 2001
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Jesse Helms trashed the U.N. and drove our allies nuts. And the Bush team will keep his go-it-alone ideology alive even after he leaves office.
By Ian Williams
August 23, 2001
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Gloria Steinem, Kweisi Mfume, Phyllis Schlafly and other political observers applaud and mourn the departure of Jesse Helms.
Compiled by Salon staff
August 23, 2001
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With the medical establishment pushing to make it available over the counter, and anti-abortion groups fighting to stop it, little-known emergency contraception could be the next battle in the reproductive wars.
By Janelle Brown
June 20, 2001
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The president surprises his critics by, at the last possible moment, signing on to the treaty for an International Criminal Court.
By Lawrence Weschler
January 5, 2001
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President Clinton shakes Fidel Castro's hand and sits in on a speech by Iran's president at the organization's P.R. bonanza.
By Ian Williams
September 8, 2000
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The latest leaked charges against Al Gore are more the product of partisan politics than any new hard evidence.
By Joe Conason
June 24, 2000
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U.S. diplomats are wrecking the chance to bring future Saddam Husseins to justice -- all for the sake of domestic politics.
By Ian Williams
June 16, 2000
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The hottest art show in America is never better than Tom Cruise in his underwear. Wouldn't a nice Kate Spade handbag be so much more practical?
By Sarah Vowell
March 29, 2000
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It's a vile, cold, wooded wasteland populated with propaganda-spewing lumberjacks and their irritating ilk. Who needs it?
By Lance Gould
March 23, 2000
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Artwork that slams Rudy Giuliani's reaction to "Sensation" leads to a little dynastic squabble that may cause the family to withdraw its name -- and not-so-little fortune -- from the museum.
By Frank Houston
March 15, 2000
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A speed-of-light cultural flyover covering McCain, Koresh, guns, Hillary, "G.I. Blues," a heartfelt appeal to the Winslet Brigade, "Star Trek" and, well, you get the idea.
By Camille Paglia
February 23, 2000
Can't we all just get along?
Great moments in political race-baiting
Let us now praise Jesse Helms
Jesse Helms is not dead
The bitter legacy of Jesse Helms
Controversial Bush judge broke ethics law
The empire strikes back
The other regime change
That old-time "Southern strategy"
Jesse Helms: Web radio's hero
Bush's hatchet man in the State Department
Goodbye, Senator Know-nothing
High noon for the morning-after pill
Clinton grows a spine
Another Republican hatchet job
Immune from prosecution
Glenn Greenwald
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