Watchdog Blog: How did the Bush Administration has get away with so much unnecessary secrecy over the past seven years? And how will the next president behave?

Informed Comment: Police mutiny, refuse to attack Sadrists; Clashes continue in Basra...but it's all good!

David Seaton's News Links: The discrediting of America's philosophy of finance is just another element in the general discrediting of the United States as a brand.

Lawyers, Guns and Money: McCain relies on Enron Revolution footsoldier for economic counsel. Steve Benen notes, "confronted with a fire, McCain is taking advice from an arsonist."

Liberal Values: Zbigniew Brzezinski on getting out of a foolish war.

The Opinion Mill's Sunday Bookchat: Mat Johnson tells the story of a black journalist passing for white, Eric Alterman faces a winger trying to pass for an intellectual, E. Benjamin Skinner stares into the abyss of modern-day slavery and Jack London, staring into the future from a century away, comes up with a novel that has more than a little in common with our own times.