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The chief counsel in the Clinton impeachment compares the current president to Nixon. Let me count the ways he's wrong.
By John W. Dean
October 4, 2000
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Anthony Summers' Nixon biography is filled with charges of drug and domestic abuse, but it also sheds light on the final days of the Nixon presidency.
By Joshua Micah Marshall
September 1, 2000
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Forget the sketchy allegations of
wife-beating. Anthony Summers' new
book makes clear that Richard Nixon's
real crimes were against his country.
By Charles Taylor
September 1, 2000
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By Amy Silverman
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August 11, 2000
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In Phoenix, Tom Liddy is running for office. Anne Kleindienst isn't. Too bad for us.
By Amy Silverman
August 7, 2000
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Daniel Ellsberg reflects on the role the Pentagon Papers played in ending the war, and says he wishes he'd released them years earlier.
By Daryl Lindsey
April 28, 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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Talkin' trash about Talk; Chris Rock & Tyson cry the blues in the bosom of fame; did Bernstein's son cough up Deep Throat's identity? Plus: Gotti on Clinton.
By Amy Reiter
August 4, 1999
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A flinty little comedy gives the Nixon years another turn.
By Stephanie Zacharek
August 4, 1999
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An impeachment scholar bemoans the spectacle that has invaded the House of Representatives.
By Lori Leibovich
December 4, 1998
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The cynical Starr hearings were to their Watergate precursors as Jack Kevorkian is to Mother Teresa.
By Steve Erickson
November 25, 1998
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In his debut column, Joe Conason argues that Steven Brill's story revealed what the public knows but the elite media refuses to admit: The national press has rolled over for the independent counsel.
By Joe Conason
June 22, 1998
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John Leonard on the life and legacy of Robert F. Kennedy, as depicted in 'The Last Patrician' by Michael Knox Beran, 'Mutual Contempt' by Jeff Shesol, 'Make Gentle the Life of this World: The Vision of Bobby Kennedy' by Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, and 'Robert F. Kennedy: A Memoir' a television special by Jack Newfield, to be aired on the Discovery Channel
By John Leonard
May 30, 1998
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NOW THAT THE SPEAKER IS MAKING LOUD NOISES, PERHAPS THE WHITE HOUSE'S HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS WON'T BE SO EASY TO COVER UP.
By David Horowitz
May 18, 1998
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A veteran Washington reporter says that Newt Gingrich visualizes the impeachment of President Clinton and Vice President Gore.
By Jonathan Broder
April 29, 1998
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A Republican congresswoman asks why her Democratic sisters are letting President Clinton off the hook.
By Jonathan Broder
March 3, 1998
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A tip sheet, guide and (generous) odds on the Clinton investigations
By Andrew Ross
November 19, 1996
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With his new insider book on Campaign '96, America's foremost investigative reporter once again demonstrates the hollow core of "access" journalism.
By Christopher Hitchens
July 1, 1996
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After spending $30 million, poring over 250,000 documents and investigating half the state of Arkansas the Republicans have produced nothing but "suspicions."
By Andrew Ross
January 28, 1996