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" …

Sharp Reaction to G.O.P. Plan on Gas Rebate  —  WASHINGTON, April 30 — The Senate Republican plan to mail $100 checks to voters to ease the burden of high gasoline prices is eliciting more scorn than gratitude from the very people it was intended to help.  —  Aides for several Republican …

Galbraith dies  —  John Kenneth Galbraith died yesterday.  I spent several weeks earlier this year reading the Parker biography which I enjoyed (although it was surely a little prolix).  He comes across as having been a surprisingly patrician character for someone who grew up in a small town …

Day without immigrants approaches  —  Some big businesses closing for the day  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Now that immigrants have grabbed the nation's attention, what next?  —  Monday has been set aside for immigrants to boycott work, school and shopping to show how much they matter to their communities.

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.

Osama Needs More Mud Huts  —  Global Islamic terrorism is the product of scattered groups.  It has much less support in the Muslim world than people think.  —  May 8, 2006 issue - Imagine if a few months after September 11 someone had said to you, "Five years from now, in the space of a single week …