William Safire

  • William Safire dead at 79

    The former Nixon speechwriter and New York Times columnist died Sunday of pancreatic cancer
    By Alex Koppelman September 28, 2009

  • Welcome back, Garrison Keillor

    Salon's former columnist returns, just in time to solve the Rove-Plame-Cheney mystery.
    By Garrison Keillor July 26, 2005

  • Right Hook

    Conservatives cheer Condi, scratch their heads over Colin, and see bright days ahead for Bush's faith-based team. Plus: Rich Lowry cackles with glee over the prospect of more blacks voting Republican.
    By Mark Follman November 17, 2004

  • William Safire, minister of disinformation

    The New York Times runs corrections when reporters get a middle initial wrong. So why does its conservative columnist get away with glaring errors that shape world affairs?
    By Barry Lando February 21, 2004

  • Joe Conason's Journal

    Safire & Co. peddle an apparently bogus memo as "proof" of a Saddam/al-Qaida connection. But the blame for 9/11 may lie closer to home.
    December 18, 2003

  • Right Hook

    New York Post's Ralph Peters tags Wesley Clark a softy on terror, while Coulter sees a devious Hillary plot.
    By Mark Follman September 24, 2003

  • "Shut your mouth"

    As radio giants censor antiwar musicians, TV networks bully pro-peace actors, and Attorney General John Ashcroft prepares a new assault on civil liberties, a climate of intimidation creeps over America.
    By Tim Grieve March 25, 2003

  • Is the pro-Israel media lobby losing its grip?

    Polls show that the American public increasingly sees two sides to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- despite the best efforts of the neoconservative punditocracy.
    By Eric Boehlert April 17, 2002

  • Where's the media mea culpa?

    Though the final Whitewater report clearly shows the Clintons were innocent, the New York Times and Washington Post arrogantly refuse to admit they were wrong.
    By Joe Conason March 28, 2002

  • The Elian metaphor

    If we really cared about Cuban children, we'd end the embargo.
    By Joe Conason April 25, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Readers squawk over Conason's offer of crow Plus: Electronic music isn't dead; a new club for Bush watchers.
    March 16, 2000

  • Fresh feathers, Mr. Safire?

    You always wanted to have your crow and eat it too on the Clinton scandals, so now it's time for you to keep your word.
    By Joe Conason March 14, 2000

  • "Scandalmonger" by William Safire

    The pundit and language columnist crafts a potboiler of sleaze and slander in the republic's infancy.
    By Katharine Whittemore March 1, 2000

  • Put a price on his head

    Now that we've won the war and silenced the critics, let's put a bounty on Milosevic.
    By Joe Conason June 15, 1999

  • "Hardball" strikes out

    Chris Matthews mistakenly identifies a Clinton friend on the air as the "jogger" who frightened Kathleen Willey.
    May 18, 1999

  • Gone with the windbags

    The election took some of the steam out of the Washington Punditocracy's hot air balloon.
    By Gary Kamiya November 5, 1998

  • Gone with the windbags

    The election took some of the steam out of the Washington Punditocracy's hot air balloon.
    By Gary Kamiya November 5, 1998

  • Gloves off

    Over the next two weeks, President Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo a very public battle of wills over the future of Middle East peace.
    By Jonathan Broder May 12, 1998

  • Armchair pundits to Clinton: Bring us the head of Saddam Hussein!

    BY ERIC ALTERMAN November 26, 1997

  • Hating Hillary

    By Andrew Ross January 13, 1996
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