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america inside outSidney Blumenthal, former senior advisor to Bill Clinton, trains an expert eye on the twists and turns of power in Washington, and tracks the health of US democracy.
The United States election is a referendum on the record of the country's near-invisible president
Two models of the US presidency are at stake, says Sidney Blumenthal's - for now - last column
An age of media collusion and deceit needs
Walter Lippmann's voice
A
new film tracks the Bushites' torture policy. Will America's leading public diplomat see it?
How the US
president's Vietnam-war record drove a famous journalist to the edge
The US "surge" is the military means to George W Bush's domestic ends
He played a key role in the Iraq war. Will he now speak out against neocon manipulation?
The Bush-Cheney team has made manipulative partisanship into a political art
The wife of Lyndon B Johnson made her own contribution to her husband's pioneering civil-rights agenda
A devastating ruling from a conservative court has demolished George W Bush's "war paradigm"
The letters of support for a disgraced White House aide reveal the shrinking of the neo-conservative mind
A career built on dogma and power-fixation finds the end it merits, says Sidney Blumenthal
A career built on dogma and power-fixation finds the end it merits, says Sidney Blumenthal
The White House welcome to Britain’s queen was in keeping with the character of his presidency, says Sidney Blumenthal.
George W Bush’s infatuation with the kitsch landscape of the American west lit the path to Abu Ghraib, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
George W Bush's agenda has been to turn the entire federal government into the instrument of a one-party state, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
The United States president's response to scrutiny of his administration's behaviour confirms his imperiousness, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
The Bush administration's treatment of United States attorneys is the logical outcome of a long Republican effort to distort the constitutional framework in the interest of partisan consolidation of power, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
The United States mission in Afghanistan has been undermined by the Bush administration’s diversion to Iraq, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
The I Lewis Libby trial shines a remorseless spotlight on the United States vice-president, reports Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
The White House leaking of information to discredit opponents before the Iraq war lays bare its cynical, manipulative culture, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
White House manoeuvring around the Baker report and the Iraq military "surge" has shifted the administration's power balance, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
The influential work of a neo-conservative pioneer is an ironic commentary on the failures of her successors, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
The White House reaction to the Iraq Study Group is a telling illustration of the president's imperviousness to independent advice, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
The embarrassment over his company's OJ Simpson book project illuminates the media tycoon's corrosive influence on the public realm in the United States and beyond, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
The defeat of the Republicans in the US mid-term elections was also a judgment on the nature of the cultural war waged against their enemies, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
The contest over the future of United States policy in Iraq will intensify after the mid-term elections, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
The tangled story of investigative journalist Bob Woodward's relationship with the Bush administration reveals the White House's subtle entrapment of his form of reportage, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
The story of a security document assessing the predicament of the United States in Iraq is a chapter in the Bush administration's political use of national intelligence, says Sidney Blumenthal. Read the rest of this post...
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