The Washington Monthly

Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America By Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose Random House, $24.95 Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose have been watching George W. Bush a long time. Their first book, Shrub, dealt with young Dubya's early political life and...

Historians may someday have convincing answers to the question of why U.S. intelligence under George W. Bush so wildly overestimated the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs. Until that day, however, curious minds might...

Joshua Kurlantzick's article on coffee consumption, "Coffee Snobs Unite" (July/August), was interesting and well argued. Unfortunately, he repeats a common error when he writes, "Vietnam didn't do this all on its own--the IMF and World Bank encouraged...

On a tree-lined street in Southeast Washington, a banner flaps against the brick front of a three-story Victorian townhouse, proclaiming "the two most important commandments"--honor thy Lord and love thy neighbor. This is the Washington office of the...

The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands By Aidan Hartley Atlantic Monthly Press, $24.00 The battered Somali capital of Mogadishu was a playground for a certain type of foreign correspondent in the early 1990s. In the...

To their credit, my parents are among that dying breed of senior--uh, maybe I should rephrase that--who have the courage to call themselves, say, 75 years "old" rather than 75 years "young". WHEN YOUR MOTHER AND I WERE IN OUR 20'S, WE USED TO HOP...

Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective By Louis W. Liebovich Praeger Publishing, $49.95 Watergate: The Presidential Scandal that Shook America By Keith W. Olson University of Kansas Press, $35.00 "The definitive judgment...

Alan Cropsey should be a trial lawyer's worst nightmare. A former schoolteacher and current state senator in Michigan, Cropsey is a devout evangelical Christian and conservative Republican who doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, and doesn't lose elections....

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