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Karl Rove leaves his fingerprints on the Bill Frist leadership campaign. Plus: As Trent Lott walks away from his post, a few defenders write in.
December 20, 2002
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Last week was enough to make you believe that the voice of the people can make a difference.
By Arianna Huffington
December 20, 2002
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A few fine books. Plus: The night Trent Lott "did the right thing"; who is the Eli Lilly Bandit?
December 19, 2002
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The GOP needs to do a lot more than rebuke Trent Lott to make up for its legacy of pandering to white bigots and suppressing the black vote.
By Joan Walsh
December 14, 2002
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Troubling new disclosures about the Senate's top Republican and his record on race relations raise questions about his fitness for office.
By Anthony York
December 13, 2002
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Sen. Trent Lott apologized again for his racially insensitive remarks, but even some conservatives called for him to step aside as the next majority leader.
By Anthony York
December 12, 2002
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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
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Four days later, Lott's controversial comment gets some attention. But not from top congressional Democrats.
By Anthony York
December 10, 2002
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Not far from WorldCom's headquarters, Bush expresses concern at corporate misdeeds. Standing with him were the men that wrote the script for disaster.
By Robert Scheer
August 14, 2002
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Angry GOP moderates say the White House and party right-wingers drove Jim Jeffords out of his own party.
By Bruce Shapiro
May 24, 2001
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July 21, 2000
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The Senate majority leader tries to make sure an anti-Semitic slur allegedly uttered 26 years ago by Hillary Clinton remains a political issue.
By Jake Tapper
July 19, 2000
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A new report names the Senate majority leader the worst of the corporate sluts. But our slut may be the greatest living American.
By Chris Colin
May 10, 2000
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Sen. Tom Daschle, the Democrats' point man on impeachment, is a tough negotiator who could save Clinton from himself.
By Jeff Stein
December 30, 1999
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Welcome to the First Annual Nothing Personal Readers' Choice Awards! Where you dish the gossip and I go on vacation!
By Amy Reiter
December 24, 1999
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Trent Lott was all set to funnel yet another military project to his home state of Mississippi until Arkansas Sen. Tim Hutchinson took him on.
By Suzi Parker
December 9, 1999
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An informal survey of toupees, transplants, weaves and dye-jobs reveals that 10 percent to 22 percent of United States senators are engaged in a coverup.
By John F. Murphy
November 22, 1999
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Senate GOP leaders have endangered us all by their foolish rejection of the test-ban treaty.
By Joe Conason
October 19, 1999
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Experts discuss the Senate's vote against the global nuclear test ban treaty, Clinton's biggest foreign policy failure yet.
By Alicia Montgomery
October 14, 1999
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The Senate rejects the test ban treaty amid partisan bickering.
By Jake Tapper
October 13, 1999
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Pat Robertson and the Christian Coalition kick off the "Road to Victory '99" convention.
By Jake Tapper
October 1, 1999
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Even new resident Monica can't handle this one, as Rudy and Hillary prepare to take their fearsome domestic quarrel to upstate New York.
By Jake Tapper
September 24, 1999
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Republicans regroup and plot strategy after President Clinton's veto of their $792 billion tax-cut package.
By Sarah Keech
September 23, 1999
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Meet the 10 biggest obstacles to gun reform legislation.
By Jake Tapper
August 12, 1999
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Now that we've won the war and silenced the critics, let's put a bounty on Milosevic.
By Joe Conason
June 15, 1999
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A whole Lott of trouble
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