Justice Department Balks on Ohio Vote

By Jason Leopold
October 31, 2008

Despite pressure from Ohio Republicans and President George W. Bush, the Justice Department has declined to intervene in a voter dispute in Ohio that could have purged at least 200,000 voters from registration rolls.

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More ‘Troopergate’ Problems for Palin

By Jason Leopold
October 31, 2008

Sarah Palin faces another likely setback in an investigation into whether she entangled her duties as Alaska governor in a family feud with her ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper, according to a senior state legislator. But the new finding is not expected before next Tuesday’s presidential election.

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The New Technology of Repression

By Robert Parry
October 30, 2008

In its final months, the Bush administration is pressing ahead with a new generation of spy technology designed to strengthen the U.S. military’s ability to detect and eliminate suspected insurgents in Iraq and elsewhere based on computer analyses of their movements and activities.

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Two Troubling Election Arguments

By Robert Parry
October 29, 2008

Eight years ago in the Bush-Gore race, there were two election arguments that I heard often that now have resurfaced in the Obama-McCain contest as reasons to vote for third-party candidates.

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The A-Word Intrudes on Campaign ‘08

By William Loren Katz
October 28, 2008

Two white skinhead believers in “white power” who allegedly planned to assassinate Barack Obama in a shooting spree that also targeted African-American school children have been arrested by federal authorities in Tennessee.

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The Logic of al-Qaeda’s McCain Choice

By Ivan Eland
October 28, 2008

In the battle for endorsements in the presidential campaign, Barack Obama snared a strong nod from former Secretary of State Colin Powell – and John McCain received an equally strong recommendation from al-Qaeda.

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Bush’s Looming Defeat in Iraq

By Robert Parry
October 27, 2008

John McCain continues to talk about a U.S. “victory” in Iraq and Sarah Palin baits Barack Obama for not using the word “win” when he discusses the war. But the hard reality facing whoever becomes President is a looming strategic defeat.

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Bush Intervenes in Ohio Voter Dispute

By Jason Leopold
October 25, 2008

In a déjà vu moment from Campaign 2006, President George W. Bush again is asking his Attorney General to launch an investigation into the registration of hundreds of thousands of new voters, many of whom are expected to vote Democratic.

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Military Voices Like Colin Powell’s

By Julie Bergman Sender
October 25, 2008

I have been hearing voices in my head for the last four years. No, I have not been driven completely around the bend by eight years of the Bush administration.

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For Whom the Bailout Tolls

By Michael Winship
October 24, 2008

During the Stock Market Crash in 1929, that curtain raising overture to the Great Depression, stories abounded of Wall Street brokers rushing to their office windows and leaping to their deaths. But according to the late John Kenneth Galbraith and other economic historians, those accounts of suicide were, by and large, fairy tales.

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