Selection and appointment Archives

Selection and appointment

No Joe!

Joe Biden’s disastrous legislative legacy

Achievetrons

Few men are so disinterested as to prefer to live in discomfort under a government which they hold to be right, rather than in comfort under one which they hold to be…

Vote Machine

by Scott Horton,

How Republicans hacked the Justice Department

8. Intelligence

by James Bamford,

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” By far the most significant intelligence error of the Bush Administration has been the decision, contrary to established American policy and common sense, to treat…

5. Science

by Chris Mooney,

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” Try, if you will, to summarize the Bush Administration’s position on the science of global warming. In 2006, the president could be found stating that…

4. The Environment

by Bill McKibben,

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” One of the best things about the departure of the Bush Administration will be the end of headache-creating cognitive dissonance. It has taken over institutions…

3. Civil Service

by Ken Silverstein,

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” In January of 2005, top Justice Department officials began making plans to remove up to 20 percent of the nation’s U.S. attorneys—those deemed not to…

2. The Courts

by Dahlia Lithwick,

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” One way to know that George Bush is going to do something is for him to say he doesn’t believe in it. The most famous…

The $50,000 question

by Harper’s Staff,

Fighting for the Supreme Court

by Cass R. Sunstein,

How right-wing judges are transforming the Constitution

Civil obedience

by Lewis H. Lapham,