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George W. Bush

Best Article Crime History

The Falling Man

In the days after 9/11, a photo of an unknown man falling from the South Tower appeared in publications across the globe. This is the story of that photograph, and of the search to find the man pictured in it.

Tom Junod Esquire Sep 2003 30min Permalink

Best Article

The Marriage Cure

In an Oklahoma City neighborhood usually left off city maps, the federal government is implementing its $300 million anti-poverty plan: teaching poor Americans how to get married.

Katherine Boo New Yorker Aug 2003 50min Permalink

Politics World

Where Did ISIS Come From? The Story Starts Here.

Paul Bremer was briefly the Bush administration’s point person in Iraq. His decisions would have lasting consequences.

Neil Swidey The Boston Globe Mar 2016 25min Permalink

Reprints

The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones

Investigating an infamous Yale secret society.

Ron Rosenbaum Esquire Sep 1977 35min Permalink

Politics

He Remade Our World

Dick Cheney and the political history of warrantless surveillance.

Mark Danner New York Review of Books Apr 2014 15min Permalink

Politics

In the Darkness of Dick Cheney

“And yet we live still in Cheney’s world. All around us are the consequences of those decisions.”

Mark Danner New York Review of Books Feb 2014 20min Permalink

Politics Sports

Smokey and the Bandit

How Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, with a little help from the Bush Administration, got 140 trees chopped down in a national park to improve his view and ruined the life of a park ranger in the process.

Tim Murphy Washington Monthly Jan 2014 25min Permalink

Politics

The Seduction of George W. Bush

President Bush’s strange friendship with Vladimir Putin.

Peter Baker Foreign Policy Nov 2013 35min Permalink

Best Article Arts Crime Media

Truth or Consequences

The story behind the story that ended Dan Rather’s career.

Joe Hagan Texas Monthly May 2012 40min Permalink

History Politics

Dubya and Me

On witnessing the transformation of George W. Bush over 25 years.

Walt Harrington The American Scholar Sep 2011 30min Permalink

World

The Confessions of 'Curveball'

How an Iraqi expat conned the United States, without ever once being interviewed by an American official, into making the case that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. “Believe me, there was no other way to bring about freedom to Iraq.”

Helen Pidd, Martin Chulov The Guardian Feb 2011 Permalink

Politics

"Damn Right," I Said

On George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points.

Eliot Weinberger London Review of Books Jan 2011 15min Permalink

Politics

Me Talk Presidential One Day

A Bush speechwriter tells all.

Matt Latimer GQ Sep 2009 20min Permalink

Politics

Double Exposure

A profile of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, published at the height of the controversy.

Vicky Ward Vanity Fair Jan 2004 30min Permalink

Crime Politics

Top Secret America

A series on the U.S. intelligence system.

  1. Part 1: A Hidden World, Growing Beyond Control

  2. National Security Inc.

  3. Part 3: The Secrets Next Door

Dana Priest, William M. Arkin Washington Post Jul 2010 55min Permalink

History Politics

The Founders’ Great Mistake

The founding fathers deserve at least some of the blame for the worst presidencies in American history—they created an office that’s vaguely defined and ripe for abuse. Plus: how to fix it.

Garrett Epps The Atlantic Jan 2009 15min Permalink