Media finally starting to report the President's systematic lawbreaking  —  (updated below)  —  On March 24, 2006, The Boston Globe published an article by Charlie Savage reporting that the President, after signing into law the bill which renewed the Patriot Act, issued a "signing statement" …

John Kenneth Galbraith  —  What I wrote about John Kenneth Galbraith last year: … And here's a genuinely bad passage from Holcomb Noble and Douglas Martin's obituary of John Kenneth Galbraith.  Embarrassing: … Other economists, like Gary S. Becker and George J. Stigler …

From Senator Clinton, a Lesson in Tactical Bipartisanship  —  WASHINGTON, April 29 — Only eight years have passed since Lindsey Graham, then an ambitious Republican member of the House, paraded over to the Senate each day to argue the impeachment case against President Bill Clinton.

Divisions Cast Aside in Cry for Darfur  —  Clutching signs that read "Never Again," thousands of protesters from across religious and political divides descended on the Mall yesterday along with celebrities and politicians to urge President Bush to take stronger measures to end the violence …

Merits of Partitioning Iraq or Allowing Civil War Weighed  —  As the U.S. military struggles against persistent sectarian violence in Iraq, military officers and security experts find themselves in a vigorous debate over an idea that just months ago was largely dismissed as a fringe thought …

Polls Suggest Ethics Issues Could Haunt GOP  —  The day before the Republican House leadership struggled for five hours to bring lobby reform legislation to the floor, Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.) declared that voters have little or no interest in ethics legislation.  —  "Do I think they care about it?

G.O.P. Moderates Rebuff Lobbyists, Then Woo Them  —  WASHINGTON, April 29 — After appearing to falter Thursday, the House of Representatives is once again poised to pass a new package of lobbying restrictions, thanks largely to the efforts of an alliance of Republican moderates.

The Rehabilitation of the Cold-War Liberal  —  This fall, for the third time since 9/11, American voters will choose between Democrats and Republicans while knowing what only one party believes about national security.  In 2002, Democratic candidates tried to change the subject, focusing on Social Security and health care instead.

CORRECTING WHERE IT COUNTS  —  The New York Times is exquisitely sensitive to the possibility that its reporters could have conflicts of interest, or undisclosed angles on the stories they report.  When such possible conficts are sniffed out, the Times takes a rigorous, Caesar's wife approach.

Dollar starts the big slide against major currencies  —  THE dollar has embarked on a big decline that will see it fall against all leading currencies, according to analysts.  —  The plunge is being prompted by America's $800 billion (£438 billion) current-account deficit, they say.