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George W. Bush
second acts
Mar. 27, 2018
George W. Bush Dances Like Nobody’s Watching Breaking: War criminal filmed cutting loose at nephew’s wedding.
By Gabriella Paiella
Paul Bremer Is Alive and Well and Teaching Skiing in Vermont One of the chief architects of the Iraq disaster doesn’t seem to have any regrets.
By Benjamin Hart
The Remarkable, Maddening Career of Zell Miller A remembrance of my former boss, a man who zig-zagged through political history.
By Ed Kilgore
Billy Graham Lived at the Crossroads of Faith and Power After getting too close to Richard Nixon, Billy Graham stayed away from partisan politics. But his son Franklin Graham is up to his ears in it.
By Ed Kilgore
last night on late night
Jan. 28, 2018
By Devon Ivie
Kerry 2020 and the Reign of the Gerontocrats Kerry is definitely a blast from the past, but deserves a hearing as much as any other septuagenarian.
By Ed Kilgore
An Initiative to Give Ex-Felons Voting Rights Could Remake F.L. Politics in 2020 More than a million Floridians can’t vote because of felony criminal records. That could all change this November.
By Ed Kilgore
Global Poll Shows U.S. Prestige Plummeting Under Trump The disdain our “America First” president has for the rest of the world is being reciprocated.
By Ed Kilgore
The GOP’s Biggest Problem Is Not Its Candidates, But Its President Trump can’t accept that he is damaging his party down-ballot. And that could send his party off in search of illusory “fixes.”
By Ed Kilgore
The Blue Dog That Didn’t Bark: House Dems Hang Tough on Tax Bill During the last big tax-cut debate in 2001, plenty of Democrats defected to the GOP on crucial votes. It’s not happening this year, so far.
By Ed Kilgore
ex-presidents
Oct. 20, 2017
Obama, Bush Both Blast Trump Without Saying His Name In separate speeches on Thursday, the two former presidents aired their grievances about the current occupant of the White House.
By Margaret Hartmann
George W. Bush Bashes Bigotry, Bullying, and Lies But Doesn’t Use Trump’s Name After spending the Obama administration learning to paint, Bush emerges with a critical speech of Trump.
By Adam K. Raymond
Early 2020 California Primary Could Affect Republicans, Too While most of the buzz about California’s move to a March 2020 primary has focused on natives and on Democrats, it could affect Donald Trump as well.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP Tax ‘Simplification’ Initiative So, So Complicated You’d think a nice, modest, balanced tax cut would be easy for a GOP Congress and White House to execute. But the GOP keeps complicating it all.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Immigration Flip-Flop His astonishing (if shaky) deal with Democrats is a miniature version of the immigration reform efforts that divided the GOP in the recent past.
By Ed Kilgore
solar eclipse 2017
Aug. 21, 2017
Please Enjoy These Photos of Politicians Awkwardly Watching the Eclipse Trump seems to be the only one who dared to risk staring at the sun without eclipse glasses.
By Claire Landsbaum
Romney Takes Trump to the Woodshed, Calls for Presidential Apology The 2012 GOP nominee unambiguously condemns Trump’s remarks about Charlottesville and calls for an extremely unlikely retraction and apology.
By Ed Kilgore
Both Presidents Bush Denounce ‘Racial Bigotry’ After Trump defended the “very fine people” at a neo-Nazi rally, the 41st and 43rd presidents joined other Republicans to repudiate bigotry.
By Adam K. Raymond
Trump’s Big Political Asset Is Supporters Who Believe Any Negative News Is Fake GOP “base” voters have long regarded the media as “biased” allies of their enemies. It’s taken Trump to convince them any bad news is just made up.
By Ed Kilgore
Satirizing Two Birds with One Bush: Looking Back at ‘That’s My Bush!’ Anthony Atamanuik’s The President Show is unlike anything else on television right now. It takes a current-day public figure and satirizes him […]
By Ramsey Ess
Democrats Don’t Want Lieberman in Position to Surrender to Another GOP President His deferential behavior toward George W. Bush is not a good precedent for tangling with Donald Trump in an unfamiliar job.
By Ed Kilgore
Will Ferrell Brings Back George W. Bush Impression “For the longest time, I was considered the worst president of all time. That has changed.”
By Devon Ivie
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Apr. 18, 2017
By Gabriella Paiella
Donald Trump Is Just George W. Bush But Racist How the party learned that the only thing it really disliked about Dubya was his inclusiveness.
By Jonathan Chait
presdential matters
Apr. 1, 2017
By Devon Ivie
candid assessments
Mar. 29, 2017
What George W. Bush Really Thought of Donald Trump’s Inauguration Three sources heard the former president offer this slightly profane assessment of the event after he left the dais.
By Yashar Ali
Last Time the GOP Passed a Health-Care Bill the Vote Was Ugly As the House prepares for a long night of whipping on Trumpcare, bad memories return of a Medicare Part D vote that haunts conservatives to this day.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats’ Best Bet for 2018: Accentuate the Negative Midterm elections are usually a referendum on the White House party. So the heavy lift of a positive agenda for Democrats may be a waste of energy.
By Ed Kilgore
George W. Bush Looks Back on Will Ferrell’s ‘SNL’ Impression of Him on […] Here’s a clip from former POTUS George W. Bush’s appearance on last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, where he looks back on the days Will Ferrell […]
By Megh Wright
early and awkward
Feb. 28, 2017
George W. Bush Doesn’t Like the ‘Racism’ and ‘Name-Calling’ in Trump’s America A spokesman said he was talking about the “decline of the political discourse,” not President Trump.
By Margaret Hartmann
George W. Bush Not Thrilled by Behavior of Monster He Helped Create The former president speaks out against Trump’s attempts to curtail press freedom and Muslim immigration.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Picks His First Latino Cabinet Member to Replace Puzder After a tough week, Trump plays it safe on a nominee who has been confirmed by the Senate multiple times before.
By Ed Kilgore
Fanning National Security Fears Is GOP’s Obvious Path to Midterm Success The history is pretty clear: Presidents’ parties lose in midterms unless Americans are preoccupied with the kind of security fears Trump likes to fan.
By Ed Kilgore
Don’t Forget George W. Bush Had Authoritarian Tendencies, Too. After 9/11, Bush claimed imperial powers. The same forces that reined him in — including an energized opposition — may be needed soon.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Dangerous Ploy to Preemptively Blame His Opponents for Terror Attacks It could misrepresent the causes for terrorist acts, and justify steps that endanger our security and civil liberties even further.
By Ed Kilgore
Pence Vows Full Evaluation of Voter Rolls in Leaked Audio of Private Meeting The vice-president isn’t going to let a total lack of evidence get in the way of a perfectly good voter-fraud investigation.
By Eric Levitz
The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Optimistic — But They’ve Been There Before The 45th president is an unlikely champion for abortion opponents. And he may not accomplish more for them than did George W. Bush.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Jan. 18, 2017
By Jonathan Chait
first person
Jan. 12, 2017
A March Can Change Your Life Looking back to 2004 — and ahead to January 21.
By Ann Friedman
Bill and Hillary Clinton Will Attend the Trump Inauguration They will do so out of a sense of duty, say two well-placed sources.
By Yashar Ali
The Latest ‘Repeal and Delay’ Idea for Obamacare: Grandfathering! With the proposed effective date for repealing Obamacare stretching ever farther into the future, a conservative wonk suggests leaving everyone alone.
By Ed Kilgore
How to Waste a Trifecta: Lessons From the George W. Bush Administration It is far too early to know if today’s triumphant Republicans will succeed in consolidating their power, or self-destruct like they did under Bush.
By Ed Kilgore
apocalyptic scenarios
Dec. 14, 2016
Michael Moore: ‘Trump Is Gonna Get Us Killed’ “Don’t forget that date and his hubris as we bury the dead next year.”
By E. Alex Jung
Trump Says He Doesn’t Want Military Interventions. So Did George W. Bush. Beware a Republican coming into office claiming a restrained attitude abroad.
By Ed Kilgore
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