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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
January 11, 2001
Anthony York |
Baked Alaska? Fearing a return to the days of James Watt, green activists mobilize to spike Bush's environmental nominees... |
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
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... |
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. |
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... |
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
January 10, 2001
Joan Walsh |
Blood in the water? Bush's Chavez blunder may spell trouble for his other nominees... |
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 9, 2001 |
"A troublesome sign for Bush's intestinal fortitude" Washington reacts to the withdrawal of Labor Secretary-designate Linda Chavez in an unexpected return to Nannygate politics... |
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... |
Outside
June 2002
Weston Kosova |
What's Gale Norton Trying to Hide? George W. Bush's Secretary of the Interior keeps a low profile, keeps her mouth shut, and never picks a fight. As the steward of 507 million public acres, she has deftly combined an aggressive, pro-extraction agenda and Bush's wartime clout to steamroll environmentalists... |
Salon.com
October 31, 2000
Carole Joffe |
There's more at stake than Roe vs. Wade From clinic access to anti-abortion terrorism, the next president -- whoever he is -- will have a profound effect on a woman's right to choose... |
Salon.com
May 23, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Greens red with rage The man known as the Mike Tyson of the coal and oil industries is on his way to an Interior post with little opposition from the Democrats... |
Reason
June 2002
Brian Doherty |
John Ashcroft's Power Grab The saga of a troubled -- and troubling -- attorney general... |
Reason
June 2007
Gillespie et al. |
Presidential Scouting Reports A libertarian fan's guide to the World Series of politics |
Salon.com
January 3, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
Gays blast Interior nominee Former Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton angered many with her defense of a controversial anti-homosexual measure... |
Salon.com
January 23, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
The most dangerous game With one swift move of the pen, President Bush angers pro-choice activists, while strident pro-lifers say he didn't go far enough... |
Salon.com
June 27, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
To Bork or not to Bork Democrats give notice that ideology will play a role when the Senate considers Bush's judicial nominees... |
Salon.com
April 17, 2001
Anthony York |
Where's Ralph? With Nader and Gore missing in action, environmentalists are desperately gearing up to stop Bush's pro-business juggernaut... |
BusinessWeek
June 20, 2005
Lorraine Woellert |
The Left's Supreme Effort A coalition of liberal groups is gearing to form a united front in the looming fight to keep hard-line conservatives off the high court. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2007
Radley Balko |
Getting Beyond Roe Why returning abortion to the states is a good idea -- Book Review: The Politics of Abortion by Anne Hendershott. |
Salon.com
December 16, 2000
Anthony York |
Will Republicans be Bush's worst enemies? From John McCain to Tom DeLay, members of his own party could make the most trouble for the president-elect... |
Salon.com
September 25, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Memo to Nader voters Anyone who doesn't think there is any difference between Bush and Gore, just think about the Supreme Court. |
Reason
April 2007
David Weigel |
The West Will Rise Again Is the South's hold over American politics on the wane? Book review: Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South, by Thomas F. Schaller. |
Reason
November 2005
David Weigel |
When Patriots Dissent Government error and bad publicity resulting from use of the PATRIOT Act have reduced the number of Americans who are willing to trade privacy for security. Politicians who vote against measures like PATRIOT will go home to sympathetic voters. |
Salon.com
June 29, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Abortion in the spotlight A narrow ruling upholding late-term abortions makes reproductive rights -- and the Supreme Court itself -- a hot issue this election year. |
Salon.com
January 9, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Lady Bountiful? Linda Chavez's "charity" to an illegal Guatemalan immigrant may cost her a Cabinet post. Her critics say it's the only nice thing she's ever done for Latinos... |
Salon.com
February 9, 2001
Dawn MacKeen |
Pro-choice activism is reactiviated Donations to Planned Parenthood are flooding in -- in the name of President Bush... |
Salon.com
December 16, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Bush to California: Choke on this The White House has joined with the oil and auto industries to undermine the state's rigorous environmental regulations. |
Mother Jones
Sep/Oct 2001
Barry Yeoman |
The Quiet War on Abortion After decades of noisy protests and violence, anti-abortion activists are relying on a new 'stealth strategy' to shut down clinics... |
Salon.com
April 28, 2001
Fiona Morgan |
Battered women Abortion rights advocates get clobbered by pro-life groups as the Unborn Victims of Violence Act advances in Congress... |
Salon.com
February 22, 2001
Jake Tapper |
The mystery of the docile Democrats How long will they keep jumping through Ringmaster George's hoops? |
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... |
Reason
October 2004
John Berlau |
John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties The Democratic candidate is no friend to the Bill of Rights. |
Outside
November 2004 |
Robert F. Kennedy, JR. & Christine Todd Whitman Debate the Environment Environmental advocates from opposing sides of the political aisle met over a campfire for a no-holds-barred debate about the state of America's natural resources. |
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
April 2009
Matt Welch |
The Liberaltarian Jackalope The liberal-libertarian rapprochement is probably dead on arrival. |
ifeminists
October 30, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
An overview of the abortion issue The debate over abortion is polarized, with the most vocal advocates for and against tending to assume extreme positions in the belief that they are enunciating a principle that allows for no compromise. |
Salon.com
May 10, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Holding court Bush unveils the beginning of his legacy -- the people he wants to shape the law. But Democrats are plotting to keep a say in the nominations... |
BusinessWeek
June 9, 2011
Stephen L. Carter |
Ugly Senate Confirmation Hearings Are the American Way Is Senate confirmation of Presidential nominees worth savaged reputations and political grandstanding? Unfortunately, yes, argues a Yale legal scholar |
Salon.com
May 15, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Playing both sides President Bush unveils a new gun program carefully crafted to appease both the NRA and gun control advocates... |
Reason
March 2002
Sam MacDonald |
Gun Control's New Language How anti-terror rhetoric is being used against the Second Amendment... |
Salon.com
January 3, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Ashcroft whistles Dixie Bush's attorney general nominee is only the latest conservative lawmaker caught pandering to fans of the Confederacy in a tiny but powerful Southern journal... |
Reason
August 2002
Jacob Sullum |
Second Thoughts John Ashcroft's Second Amendment position, even if adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court, is not likely to have practical consequences anytime soon. |
Salon.com
December 14, 2000 |
Now what? Bianca Jagger, Todd Gitlin, David Horowitz, Andrew Sullivan and other Salon panelists respond to the speeches by Vice President Al Gore and President-elect George W. Bush... |
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
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... |
BusinessWeek
September 27, 2004
Alexandra Starr |
Democrats: A Hill Too Far? Not so long ago, Democrats were bragging that they could win back the Senate this November -- and it didn't seem like bravado. Now, two seats short of a Senate majority, the party faces a risk of backsliding. |
