Sidney Blumenthal

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  • Mugged by reality

    Once the warrior queen of neoconservatism, Jeane Kirkpatrick died a critic of Bush's unilateralism. Her death illuminates the conflicting legacies of the movement she helped found.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 14, 2006

  • Beating off the rescue party

    Just as he ignored accurate intelligence on Iraq, Bush will dismiss the Baker Commission's tough-minded proposals for salvaging his botched war.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 7, 2006

  • Generation Dem

    Beyond the failure of Karl Rove, the momentous 2006 elections signaled the emergence of a younger, bluer America that could reshape politics for years to come.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 30, 2006

  • Base instincts

    Yes, Rupert Murdoch spiked the O.J. Simpson book. But the Fox mogul's obsession with degradation will continue unabated.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 23, 2006

  • All the father's men

    Bush family guardians James Baker and others are trying to rescue "Sonny" from his failed Middle East policies. Will he listen this time?
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 16, 2006

  • Fall of the house of kitsch

    Like Haggard and other GOP cultural warriors, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were empty historical characters -- faux "war heroes" who trafficked in style over substance.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 8, 2006

  • It's Rove's midterm to lose

    His tactical successes have laid the groundwork for the GOP's strategic failure and could cost his party control of Congress.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 1, 2006

  • Bush's policy quagmire

    The president is already signaling he'll disregard James A. Baker III's recommendations for reshaping U.S. policy in the Middle East. But will Baker sit still?
    By Sidney Blumenthal October 26, 2006

  • Queer and loathing on Capitol Hill

    The succession of scandals among GOP lawmakers is shattering the remaining shards of the Republican "revolution."
    By Sidney Blumenthal October 19, 2006

  • Whose state of denial?

    Bob Woodward's critical new book left the Bush White House feeling betrayed. But his earlier "Bush at War" hagiography betrayed all Americans
    By Sidney Blumenthal October 11, 2006

  • It's the coverup, stupid

    As Foleygate festers, the finger-pointing GOP leadership is proving once again that it's not the crime that kills you.
    By Sidney Blumenthal October 5, 2006

  • At war, in denial

    Sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies contributed to the NIE report that concludes Iraq "has become the cause célèbre for jihadists." Bush ignores them all.
    By Sidney Blumenthal September 28, 2006

  • Where torture got him

    Bush's effort to gut the Geneva Conventions has antagonized the military, split Republicans, and undercut his war on terror.
    By Sidney Blumenthal September 21, 2006

  • Emerald City exposed

    Journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran pulls back the curtain on the Green Zone in Baghdad to reveal the flops and failures of the Bush war team.
    By Sidney Blumenthal September 14, 2006

  • How bad is he?

    Bush ran as a moderate, tacked right and governed ineffectually -- before 9/11. Since then he's become the most radical American president in history -- and arguably the worst.
    By Sidney Blumenthal September 12, 2006

  • Bush's top female enabler

    Like Karen Hughes and Harriet Miers, Condi Rice dotes on her boss and shields him from critics. Meanwhile, the State Department suffers neglect.
    By Sidney Blumenthal September 7, 2006

  • Remembrance of Bush's fiascoes

    As he travels the nation to commemorate Katrina and 9/11, the president is only highlighting the tragedy of his own incompetence.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 31, 2006

  • Like father, like son

    Bush's cranky, feeble defense of the Iraq war at Monday's press conference echoed his father's political meltdown.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 24, 2006

  • Israel's debacle, courtesy of Bush

    With U.S. support, Israeli unilateralism was unfurled. The nation's security has never been so endangered, or its moral authority so tarnished.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 17, 2006

  • Joe's fall from grace

    Lieberman, the Democrats' man of faith, is now running on bad faith.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 9, 2006

  • The neocons' next war

    By secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 3, 2006

  • Domino diplomacy

    Condi Rice and Co. are using the conflict in Lebanon as a proxy war with Iran that will somehow rescue the U.S. from failure in Iraq.
    By Sidney Blumenthal July 27, 2006

  • The emperor's new veto

    Bush's first veto of Congress marks the collapse of his imperial presidency -- and a crisis for the paranoid style he and his party have mastered.
    By Sidney Blumenthal July 20, 2006

  • Swaggering to nowhere

    As the Mideast burns and North Korea threatens, the once-boastful president has no policy and is reduced to pathetic bleats.
    By Sidney Blumenthal July 13, 2006

  • The imperial presidency crushed

    The Supreme Court's rejection of kangaroo military tribunals shackles Bush's legacy to Nixon's -- and could even land him in the dock for war crimes.
    By Sidney Blumenthal July 6, 2006
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