David Corn

This is a presidential campaign of God and man. Or, at least, that is how George W. Bush and his strategists want the electorate to view the contest. Bush is on the side of God, and Kerry is . . . well, you get the picture. And what evidence does......

Remember that mission to Mars? Or the push to rid professional sports of steroids? Or the plan to urge newspapers to publish more positive stories? Or that scheme to encourage e-mail between grandparents and their grandchildren? These were all initiatives that the Bush White House considered at one time or......

AS I DROVE THROUGH two security checkpoints the other morning to reach my office, which is half a block from the U.S. Capitol, I thought, I’m damn glad John Kerry is going overboard on Vietnam. I know lefties who have griped about Kerry’s pro-military extravaganza at the Democratic convention. The......

Illustration by Winston Smith Patriotism is typically defined as love of country. And love, it is said, is blind. No wonder then that those who dare to address or seek out inconvenient and uncomfortable truths about the government often go unrecognized as true patriots or, worse, are denounced by others......

From a dead president to one with, uh, too much life. Chief Executive Number 40 is in the ground — after a one-sided, ahistorical mediapalooza that celebrated a Hallmarkian “American Life” without mentioning the less pleasant and heartwarming part of the story: supporting dictators, backing foreign armies that massacred peasants,......

The day after CIA Director George Tenet took a powder, I was in an elevator with Matt Dowd, the pollster for the George W. Bush re-election campaign. Isn’t Tenet’s exit a blow to the Bush campaign? I asked him. After all, this was a week in which Bush was celebrating......

John Kerry is a loser heading toward ignominious defeat in November. With George W. Bush plummeting in the polls, due to the troubles in Iraq, Kerry is only even with the president or a few points ahead in several polls. This shows how weak a contender he is. John Kerry......

The war in Iraq has gotten so ugly that even some nervous-Nellie conservatives have started wondering whether George W. Bush bit off more than the United States can chew. Columnist George Will has questioned Bush’s inability — or unwillingness — to reconsider the mission in Iraq. Representative Henry Hyde, a......

The scene: an imaginary conversation in one of the Century City towers. Thanks for seeing me, Harv. Well, you are dating my sister’s Pilates instructor. Now what’s the pitch? Okay, we start in the jungles of Vietnam. A young American is piloting a Navy swift boat up river. Then ......

The real question for the 9/11 commission — and the American public — is not whether George W. Bush considered al Qaeda an urgent threat before 9/11, but this: How did the U.S. government let Khalid al-Mihdar and Nawaf al-Hazmi get away with it? Don’t know who al-Mihdar and al-Hazmi......