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Salon.com January 30, 2001 Joe Conason |
The artful dodger John Ashcroft's nose is growing faster than Pinocchio's during his Senate confirmation hearings. As attorney general, will he be as evasive with the truth? |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Charles Oliver |
Southern Nationalism Exploring the roots of the Civil War... |
Reason June 2002 Brian Doherty |
John Ashcroft's Power Grab The saga of a troubled -- and troubling -- attorney general... |
Salon.com January 16, 2001 Alicia Montgomery |
The case for John Ashcroft Clint Bolick of the Institute for Justice says Ashcroft champions civil rights, rules by law and will make a great attorney general... |
Salon.com January 16, 2001 Joe Conason |
Ashcroft's tough Sell A segregationist group is banking on the hard-on-crime attorney general nominee to drop a murder conspiracy case against one of its own... |
Salon.com January 11, 2001 Alicia Montgomery |
Conservatives flex muscles over Ashcroft In a pugnacious appearance, right-wing groups serve notice to "liberal ideologues" that there's a new sheriff in town. |
Reason June 2005 Cathy Young |
Behind the Jeffersonian Veneer Thomas Woods, author of the best-selling Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, is a bad ally for libertarians, though his message may appeal to those who can't distinguish the flaws of America from those of outright despotisms. |
Salon.com January 18, 2001 Alicia Montgomery |
Round 2: Ashcroft wins over a Democrat Georgia's Zell Miller says he'll confirm the attorney general designate despite tough grilling on gun control and abortion by Kennedy, Schumer and Feinstein... |
American History February 2, 2005 Dinesh D'Souza |
Abraham Lincoln as Statesman The key to understanding Lincoln's Philosophy of Statesmanship is that he always sought the meeting point between what was right in theory and what could be achieved in practice. |
Salon.com January 16, 2001 Bruce Shapiro |
Can John Ashcroft be stopped? If the Clarence Thomas hearings are any guide, disorganized Democrats could be the Republican nominee's best friends... |
Reason February 2003 John J. Pitney Jr. |
Gone With the Vote For the GOP in the South, Reconstruction isn't quite over. A half-century ago, Southern Democrats campaigned by opposing color-blind laws, stirring up racial fears, and silencing those who opposed them. They still do. |
Salon.com January 22, 2001 David Horowitz |
The Democratic inquisition Democrats set out to tar and feather Bush's Cabinet nominees as racists, overlooking their own racial peccadilloes... |
Salon.com May 30, 2000 David Horowitz |
The latest civil rights disaster Ten reasons why reparations for slavery are a bad idea for black people -- and racist too. |
Salon.com July 11, 2000 Jake Tapper |
Ebony and irony A folksy George W. Bush speaks to the NAACP as the more dubious parts of his civil rights record go unmentioned. |
Salon.com April 2, 2001 David Horowitz |
My 15 minutes "I couldn't be more pleased by the attention," columnist David Horowitz says, as the controversy over his anti-reparations ad rages on... |
Salon.com May 7, 2001 David Horowitz |
Bush's political lynching The president has created the most diverse administration in history. So why does the race-baiting left continue to plant anti-Republican paranoia in black communities? |
Salon.com January 11, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Get Ronnie White, Round 2 In their battle for Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft, Republicans are once again attacking the Missouri Supreme Court justice whose federal judgeship Ashcroft scuttled... |
Civil War Times |
Death and Civil War America: Interview with Drew Gilpin Faust Faust's new book This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War is a thoughtful study of the impact of the Civil War's massive death toll. |
TIME Asia May 9, 2011 |
Inbox Readers offer comments on stories dealing with the Egyptian revolution, the Ryan U. S. budget proposal, and the Civil War. |
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Stephan Talty |
Slaves of a different color Historians mostly ignore the fact that some white people, too, were enslaved before the Civil War. |
Salon.com June 12, 2000 David Horowitz |
Stuck on Oprah Earl Ofari Hutchinson sets up a straw woman to knock down my arguments against reparations, and he fails. |
American History August 9, 2004 William F. B. Vodrey |
George Washington: Hero of the Confederacy? The cost of political greatness, it's been said, is to be forced to campaign long after your death. That's certainly true of George Washington, whose name, image and legacy were appropriated by the Confederacy. |
Salon.com January 5, 2001 Alicia Montgomery |
Will Bush Cabinet picks get Borked? Liberal Democrats are gearing up to oppose the president-elect's most conservative choices. Here's a list of the most vulnerable nominees, and their enemies... |
Civil War Times January 2008 David J. Eicher |
Coming Apart From the Inside: How Internal Strife Brought Down the Confederacy In addition to combating Northern armies, the president of the Confederate States of America battled his congress, his generals and his own vice president. |
Reason May 2006 Damon W. Root |
When Bigots Become Reformers Book Review: The Progressive Era and Race: Reform and Reaction, 1900-1917, by David W. Southern deserves careful attention. The Progressive movement unleashed, aided, and abetted some of the most destructive forces in America. |
Salon.com January 3, 2001 Gary Kamiya |
Skeletons in the Cabinet Democrats need to work with Bush. But they don't need right-wing dinosaurs like John Ashcroft and Gale Norton... |
Salon.com June 25, 2001 David Horowitz |
Why gays shouldn't serve There really is a valid military argument against military inclusion, but the forces of political correctness won't allow it to be heard... |
Salon.com January 2, 2001 Alicia Montgomery |
Bush taps a Democrat Clinton appointee Norm Mineta is selected to head the Department of Transportation, opponents gear up to battle the Bush agenda and Democrats target John Ashcroft... |
Salon.com December 22, 2000 Daryl Lindsey |
"A clear and present danger to American women" Pro-choice activists criticize the appointment of conservative John Ashcroft as the Bush administration's attorney general. |
Salon.com June 5, 2000 Earl Ofari Hutchison |
Debt wrong David Horowitz is incorrect. It's time for the United States to pay up for slavery. |
Salon.com February 1, 2001 Alicia Montgomery |
Dems fold on Ashcroft And party activists are angry. James Carville says Democrats are giving their "unelected president" a free ride... |
Salon.com January 18, 2001 Adele M. Stan |
License to kill? As a senator, John Ashcroft backed a Missouri bill that might make killing an abortion provider justifiable homicide... |
Salon.com January 17, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Why won't Rush Limbaugh denounce Ronnie White? Maybe he knows White is no more pro-criminal than his own cousin, Missouri Supreme Court Justice Stephen Limbaugh Jr.... |
Reason October 2004 John Berlau |
John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties The Democratic candidate is no friend to the Bill of Rights. |
Salon.com January 31, 2002 Eric Boehlert |
Andrew Sullivan's selective Enron outrage The failed energy trader didn't just spend money on politicians. It gave handily to journalists, too. But why is Sullivan most angry about the one liberal who cashed in? |
Civil War Times December 2003 Eric Ethier |
Who Was the Common Soldier of the Civil War? Here's what the statistics tell us. |
Salon.com January 12, 2001 Daniel Forbes |
Ashcroft's nephew got probation after major pot bust Although his arrest for growing 60 plants could have landed him in federal prison, Alex Ashcroft was tried in state court and avoided jail, despite his uncle's crusade for tougher federal drug laws and mandatory prison sentences. |