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2005 Stories by James Ridgeway

• President Bush, Republicans Eyeing Zero-Fun Environment

  published November 22, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Bush administration is beginning to show serious signs of collapse at home and abroad. The More >>

• Heading South

  published November 22, 2005

  With Iraqi oil firmly under his control, the president can now turn to Venezuela and Hugo Chávez, who the Bush administration says is out... More >>

• What’s the Deal With Sibel Edmonds?

  published November 22, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.--The latest rebuke to Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI translator who has been... More >>

• White Phosphorus, Caged Lions, Peeling Skin

  published November 15, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.--Increasingly, the U.S. is facing charges of war crimes in Iraq. In the most recent horrifying accusations of... More >>

• And Another Thing, You Donkey Heads

  published November 15, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.--Cheney’s temper tantrum against the Democrats at a Republican dinner Wednesday night reflects the growing pressure... More >>

• What's the Deal With John Murtha?

  published November 15, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.-Representative John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat calling for an end to U.S.... More >>

• Cheney, Rumsfeld Push the Hard Line

  published November 15, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.--With President Bush returning here today after a downer trip to Asia (no concrete results in what President Hu... More >>

• Capitalizing on the Flu

  published November 15, 2005

  Washington, D.C.—President Bush's vague plan for coping with a serious outbreak of bird flu is based largely on fear and greed. There... More >>

• Centrist Democrats Notch Big Win

  published November 8, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.-If there are any real winners in yesterday's elections, they're the center-right Democrats gathered around the... More >>

• Alito Abortion Letter Appeals to the Right

  published November 8, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.—No wonder right-wingers love him so much.... More >>

• Feeling Insecure

  published November 8, 2005

  As time passes, more details of what happened before and after 9-11 become known. Here are three examples of the government's outright failure... More >>

• Drilling in Alaska: The Big Picture

  published November 1, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.—Thursday’s narrow Senate More >>

• Tortured Truth

  published November 1, 2005

  Washington, D.C.--No sooner had President Bush told reporters on his stop in Panama that More >>

• President Should Dump Cheney

  published November 1, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.—Politicians across the political spectrum are hoping against hope that President Bush can take control of the... More >>

• That Sinking Feeling

  published November 1, 2005

  Having failed to refocus his administration away from Plamegate to such loftier pursuits as putting Samuel Alito on the bench or announcing the... More >>

• While You Were Waiting for the Plame Indictments

  published October 25, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.-With all eyes on Patrick Fitzgerald and... More >>

• Harriet Miers, We Hardly Knew Ye

  published October 25, 2005

  Editor's note: On Thursday morning, Harriet Miers, President Bush's nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court,... More >>

• After Miers: Bush Needs to Reunite His Base

  published October 25, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Bush's abandonment of Harriet Miers... More >>

• If Libby's Indicted, Cheney Will Feel the Heat

  published October 25, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.—If, as the New York Times More >>

• Libby Indictments a Kiss of Death for Bush White House

  published October 25, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.—Friday's indictments of I. Lewis Scooter Libby, which at a minimum mean Plame Affair prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald... More >>

• Bush Picks a Supreme Court Fight

  published October 25, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Bush's nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court this morning is a transparent—and... More >>

• Springing a Leak

  published October 25, 2005

  While Patrick Fitzgerald's indictment follows the Byzantine finagling between Scooter Libby and various Washington reporters to make the overall... More >>

• Democrats Attack Over War Intelligence

  published October 25, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.--Republican efforts to refocus the nation’s attention from the indictment of Scooter Libby to the Supreme Court... More >>

• Filling Karl Rove's Loafers

  published October 18, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.—With White House adviser Karl Rove beginning to look like a real More >>

• What's the Deal With Ben Bernanke?

  published October 18, 2005

  WASHINGTON, D.C.—Ben Bernanke, announced... More >>