Bush Legacy
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Marsha Iverson, Walter Cox
How will George W. Bush be remembered outside the Washington beltway? In January, we joined forces with Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin to find some of the best news and opinion on the Bush Legacy, as covered by local and foreign publications.
Check our News Hunt Results on the NewsTrust blog. We’ve posted a detailed analysis on the wide range of news and opinion we reviewed together about the Bush era and its social impact — as seen from beyond the beltway.
Below are the best stories we found from the past month. We were looking to promote new voices that haven’t been heard before (instead of Washington correspondents and usual suspects from national publications and websites.)
For a broader selection of Bush-related stories, check our separate topic page on the Bush Administration.
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MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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The Justice Department invoked the state secrets privilege Friday to try to stop a lawsuit over Bush-era ...
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New York Times
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Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti
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Apr. 22, 2009
(Special Report)
The top officials he briefed did not learn that waterboarding had been prosecuted by the United States in ...
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Newsweek
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Michael Isikoff
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Mar. 4, 2009
(News Report)
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the U.S. military to ...
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Newsweek
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Jonathan Alter
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Feb. 18, 2009
(News Analysis)
Say sayonara to "kumbaya." Bipartisanship is all but dead in Washington. President Obama cut a deal to win passage ...
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Even in the best of times, carrying a balance on your credit card is a risky -- and costly -- proposition. These ...
INDEPENDENT MEDIA
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The Nation
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Christopher Hayes
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Sep. 23, 2009
(News Analysis)
With the notable exception of handing over $700 billion to Wall Street last year, the United States Congress is not ...
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Huffington Post political reporter Sam Stein weighed in on Condoleeza Rice's comments on Afghanistan during his ...
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The Nation
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Jeremy Scahill
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Aug. 26, 2009
(Investigative Report)
Blackwater, the private mercenary company owned by Erik Prince, has been thrust back into the spotlight by a series ...
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TruthOut
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Reid Wilson
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Jun. 30, 2009
(News Analysis)
Campaign finance watchdogs are concerned that a little-seen order issued on the Supreme Court's final day could ...
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The revelation this month in GQ Magazine that Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary embellished top-secret wartime ...
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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THE JOURNAL presents CRITICAL CONDITION, a documentary in which ordinary hard-working Americans tell their stories ...
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Slate
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Christopher Hitchens
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Jan. 20, 2009
(Opinion)
...there's an element of hubris in all this current hope-mongering and that I am beginning to be a little bit ...
Posted by Mark Steele
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Haaretz
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Yossi Sarid
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Jan. 16, 2009
(Opinion)
You, Barack Hussein Obama, are our last chance, and if that too fades - and evil is determined against us, all hope ...
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There's actually a lot that President-elect Barack Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush. ...
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Well, they say that journalism is the first draft of history. So I am going to predict that those future historians ...
INDEPENDENT MEDIA
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Harper's
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Scott Horton
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Nov. 3, 2009
(Editorial)
The majority, Calabresi charges, “engaged in extraordinary judicial activism.” Its activism was aimed at ...
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Democracy Now
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Jeremy Keenan, Amy Goodman
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Aug. 6, 2009
(Interview)
He traces AFRICOM, the US military command in Africa, to a 2003 kidnapping of European tourists. The hostage taking ...
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As the American Right celebrates its success in disrupting “town hall” meetings where congressional Democrats ...
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Claiming that he was water-boarded as part of Navy Seal training he received during the Vietnam War era, Ventura ...
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Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told the BBC, “The Geneva Convention is very clear on the rules for ...