Trent Lott

  • Wicker wins in Mississippi

    The incumbent Republican holds on to his Senate seat, easily fending off his Democratic challenger.
    By Alex Koppelman November 4, 2008

  • Tell us again why you're retiring, Senator

    Trent Lott's brother-in-law, who represented him in a Katrina settlement, is indicted on charges of trying to bribe a judge.
    By Tim Grieve November 29, 2007

  • Trent Lott to resign

    Reelected in 2006, he'll be gone by the end of 2007.
    By Tim Grieve November 26, 2007

  • Lott: Gonzales resolution "debases" the U.S. Senate

    The Mississippi Republican isn't for the attorney general; he's just against a no-confidence vote.
    By Tim Grieve June 11, 2007

  • Time to think

    Trent Lott says Bush has until fall to show progress in Iraq or ... or ... or ...
    By Tim Grieve May 8, 2007

  • Meet your new Senate minority whip

    Trent Lott's way with words didn't end in 2002.
    By Tim Grieve November 15, 2006

  • Outside Foleygate: Trent Lott, Bill Frist and "Mission Accomplished"

    Nineteen U.S. troops have died in Iraq since ABC broke the news of a congressman's interest in underage pages.
    By Tim Grieve October 3, 2006

  • Come to think of it, Northerners looked a lot like Southerners, too

    Trent Lott wonders why Sunnis and Shiites fight.
    By Tim Grieve September 29, 2006

  • The other CIA leak case

    Bill Frist and Dennis Hastert had a big idea. Could it have been any worse?
    By Tim Grieve November 9, 2005

  • Now some conservatives ask: Is it time for Rove to go?

    Trent Lott wonders if Bush is well served by having his chief political advisor around.
    By Tim Grieve November 2, 2005

  • Miers "most qualified"? Even Trent Lott says no

    Lott says he's "not comfortable" with Bush's Supreme Court nominee.
    By Tim Grieve October 5, 2005

  • "Things are going remarkably well"

    Don't blame the federal government for the Katrina debacle, say GOP senators. And definitely don't ask the heads of Homeland Security and FEMA to testify before Congress.
    By Mark Benjamin September 7, 2005

  • Bush the despot

    The Senate's compromise on the filibuster won't stop the president's quest for absolute power.
    By Sidney Blumenthal May 26, 2005

  • Trent Lott calls; Karl Rove answers

    A day after Lott lectures the White House about its lukewarm support for Tom DeLay, Bush's political strategist wraps his arms around a "good man" and "close ally."
    By Tim Grieve April 19, 2005

  • Can Tom DeLay hold on?

    The Hammer seeks support from Senate Republicans, and a House colleague calls Christopher Shays a "jerk" for deserting their leader.
    By Tim Grieve April 13, 2005

  • A mash note to the blogosphere

    Simply put, blogs are the greatest breakthrough in popular journalism since Tom Paine broke onto the scene.
    By Arianna Huffington April 7, 2004

  • Old times there are not forgotten

    Howard Dean, Ronald Reagan, CBS and the politics of apology.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 8, 2003

  • Trent Lott, populist hero

    Once a GOP ultra-partisan, the deposed Senate leader is now leading the charge against the FCC and media giantism. Is it his revenge against the Bush White House?
    By Eric Boehlert September 22, 2003

  • The never ending war over slavery

    A new exhibit at the Museum of the Confederacy tells of slaves who supported slavery. But if former Gov. Doug Wilder's dream comes true, the nation's first slavery museum will tell a different -- and harsher -- story.
    By Louise Witt May 27, 2003

  • The racist skeletons in Charles Pickering's closet

    President Bush dumped Trent Lott because of his segregationist baggage. So why is he fighting relentlessly for a judge who has refused to come clean about his own bigoted past?
    By Sean Wilentz May 12, 2003

  • TV does the darndest things

    The 10 moments that defined American television in 2002. Not necessarily in a good way.
    By Sheerly Avni December 26, 2002

  • Trent and Anna Nicole! Naked! On Fox!

    Sure, TV in 2001 got all serious and stuff. This year we reconnected with what's really important: Hard bodies in hot tubs, public humiliation and more "Law & Order" spinoffs.
    By Aaron Kinney December 26, 2002

  • Lott falls, but Democrats don't rise

    Author Charles Bullock, an expert in the politics of the South, says the GOP will dust itself off and get along fine in Dixie.
    By Eric Boehlert December 21, 2002

  • Life after Lott

    Bill Frist, the likely new Senate majority leader, is hailed as a moderate, but he's an antiabortion hard-liner who votes much like Trent Lott.
    By Michelle Goldberg December 21, 2002

  • Reactions to Trent Lott's fall

    Jill Nelson, Todd Gitlin and others react to the Senate majority leader's resignation and the apparent ascension of Sen. Bill Frist.
    Compiled by Salon staff December 21, 2002
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