Truthdig Columns

2013

01/08 Richard Nixon at 100: The Man Who Matters

2012

12/20 Robert Bork: A Pass on Watergate, Not ‘Original Intention’

09/18 Butt Out, Bibi

06/14 Journalism Was Only a Bit Player in Exposing Watergate Crimes

2011

09/06 How Not to Commemorate 9/11

08/19 A Serious Candidate

08/04 Say It Ain’t So, O!

03/31 Who Says It’s Not About Destroying Unions?

03/18 Obama’s Libyan Quandary

03/04 Gov. Walker Does ‘Something Big’

02/21 What Gov. Walker Won’t Tell You

02/15 Activist Judges Strike Again

2010

12/09 Every Man His Own Historian

10/29 The Company We Keep

10/24 Tea Party Robber Barons

10/13 The Bipartisan Politics of Fear

09/06 Our ‘Dumb Wars’ Will Go On

08/31 Our Enabling Media Is Worse Than Ever

08/06 65 Years After Hiroshima: Truman’s Choices

07/13 It’s Obama’s Empire Now

07/01 What Kind of Supreme Court?

04/15 A Supreme Court Choice We Can Believe In

03/26 So Much for a ‘Post-Racial’ America

03/02 The System Works, Obama’s Approach Doesn’t

2009

12/08 Financial Oversight: We’re Still Waiting, Mr. President

11/24 Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize

11/03 The Best Justice That Money Can Buy

10/01 Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma

08/20 Lesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan

08/09 35 Years After Nixon

07/11 What Will History Make of Colin Powell?

05/23 Congressional Duck and Cover

05/14 Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling

04/28 Enough With This ‘100 Days’ Nonsense

03/27 We’re Paying Congress for This?

01/05 Blagojevich vs. the Senate

2008

12/04 Bailout Ballpark

11/29 Bush’s 11th-Hour Bid for Secrecy

11/12 From LBJ to BHO

10/31 Closing Guantanamo

09/25 They Claim the Bailout Is Necessary, but Is It Constitutional?

06/19 A Government of Law, Not Fear

06/15 The Vice Presidency: Hype and Flourishes

05/20 The False Comfort of War

04/15 Blame It on the Media

03/29 The Decriminalization of Corporate Crime

03/11 Why George Bush Loves John McCain

03/07 The Folly of Experience