Joe Conason writes a weekly column for Salon and the New York Observer. His new book is "It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush."

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Friday, Nov 20, 2009 10:20 PST

A wobbly Democrat's moment of truth

Pressured from both sides, will a poll-wary Sen. Blanche Lincoln help the GOP sink healthcare reform?
Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 16:13 PST

Lou Dobbs for president!

The former CNN host sounds like he's running for office -- and if so, he's a GOP nightmare
Thursday, Nov 5, 2009 17:06 PST

Joe Lieberman undercuts his wife

If he really cared about women's health, Hadassah's new cause, he'd get out of the way of healthcare reform
Thursday, Oct 29, 2009 17:28 PDT

Why does Joe Lieberman oppose healthcare reform? Ask his wife

Both Lieberman and Evan Bayh have spouses who have profited from the healthcare industry
Thursday, Oct 22, 2009 17:23 PDT

Criticizing Fox News isn't "Nixonian." But Fox News is

Pundits are making false comparisons between Obama and Nixon. They have no idea what they're talking about
Friday, Oct 16, 2009 11:16 PDT

Nativism is dangerous to our health

Swine flu doesn't discriminate. Universal healthcare coverage should cover everyone -- including the undocumented
Friday, Oct 9, 2009 00:09 PDT

Time for the media to fess up

Journalists like Evan Thomas now admit the Clinton scandals were bogus. When will they admit they played along?
Monday, Oct 5, 2009 00:07 PDT

The vast right-wing conspiracy is back

Some of Bill Clinton's most unhinged foes are flinging wild charges at Obama. This time, they're better organized
Friday, Sep 25, 2009 10:15 PDT

Look -- conservatives who believe in global warming!

And they're doing something about it. Too bad they live in Europe. Why can't we have smarter right-wingers?
Friday, Sep 18, 2009 03:18 PDT

In defense of ACORN

The right-wing crusade against ACORN is a far bigger fraud than any misdeeds a few employees might have committed
Friday, Sep 4, 2009 08:05 PDT

Healthcare didn't have to go this way

Obama gave away the store on this crucial issue. It's time to take it back
Friday, Aug 28, 2009 03:27 PDT

Ted Kennedy wanted the public option

His list of achievements is epic, but he worked to fix healthcare for 40 years. Let's finish the job in his name
Friday, Aug 21, 2009 03:21 PDT

Now more than ever, bipartisanship is for suckers

Republicans want Obama to fail. He needs to stop seeking consensus, because it makes him look weak
Friday, Aug 14, 2009 14:14 PDT

Winston Churchill was a Bolshevik

Guess who helped launch socialized healthcare in the U.K.? The ultimate conservative icon -- and he was proud of it
Friday, Aug 7, 2009 03:19 PDT

Clinton derangement syndrome, North Korean strain

Sufferers of this incurable illness twist Bill Clinton's moving rescue of two journalists into something ugly
Friday, Jul 31, 2009 14:31 PDT

Will Bill and Betsy kill again?

Kristol and McCaughey helped derail Clinton's healthcare reforms with misinformation -- and now they're at it again
Friday, Jul 24, 2009 03:20 PDT

Blue Dogs heel when lobbyists whistle

Why their vaunted "fiscal conservatism" targets health reform -- and never Pentagon waste
Friday, Jul 17, 2009 09:18 PDT

Bipartisanship is for suckers

Hey, Democrats -- Republicans have no intention of addressing America's healthcare ills. Any reform is up to you
Friday, Jul 10, 2009 03:18 PDT

The losers who gave us Sarah Palin

The GOP operatives who championed her should be held accountable for endangering the country
Friday, Jul 3, 2009 03:30 PDT

Rush Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot

And so are his Fox News pals, who lambasted Sen. Al Franken's "stolen election"
Friday, Jun 26, 2009 03:25 PDT

Remind me: Which political party is "decadent" and "sick"?

Mark Sanford's zipper problem is yet more proof that Republican conservatives are just liberals in right-wing drag
Friday, Jun 19, 2009 03:23 PDT

An Obama "scandal" as phony as Whitewater

The right finds a fake martyr in Gerald Walpin, a Bush holdover and right-wing ideologue fired by President Obama
Friday, Jun 12, 2009 09:12 PDT

The politics of assassination

Inside the violent movement that spawned James von Brunn and Scott Roeder.
Friday, Jun 5, 2009 03:10 PDT

Crackpots calling the kettle black

Race-baiting lowlights from Rush Limbaugh and Pat Buchanan, two of the pundits who say Sonia Sotomayor is racist.
Friday, May 29, 2009 03:24 PDT

Sonia Sotomayor is not Clarence Thomas

Why do Republicans think Sotomayor is a mediocre beneficiary of affirmative action? Because they had their own.
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