Sidney Blumenthal is an author and journalist. He is former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, who also advised Hillary Clinton during her campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2008. Among his books are How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime (Princeton University Press, 2006) and The Strange Death of Republican America: Chronicles of a Collapsing Party (Union Square /Sterling, 2008). He has written columns for Salon and the Guardian as well as openDemocracy.

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Two models of the United States presidency are at odds in the 2008 election, says Sidney Blumenthal in - as he explains - his last column for a while.

"For in an exact sense the present crisis of western democracy is a crisis of journalism." The professional collapse of the American news media makes the work of its pioneering analyst ever more relevant, says Sidney Blumenthal.

An acclaimed documentary film tracks the grisly journey of the George W Bush administration into the world of torture. Sidney Blumenthal invites Karen Hughes, senior official responsible for defending America's image in the world, to a private screening in Washington.

A famous broadcast journalist is preparing to expose his former employer's cravenness and self-censorship over the United States president's Vietnam-war record, reports Sidney Blumenthal.

The Congressional testimony of the United States military commander in Iraq confirms that the "surge" is designed to serve George W Bush's domestic political ends, says Sidney Blumenthal.