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Ensign May Have Busted Ethics Rules After Affair

Senator arranged lobbying work for senior aide after having affair with his wife

Oct 2, 09 5:27 AM CDT

Top Aides Leaving Ensign 


Jul 23, 09 8:19 PM CDT
ANALYSIS

Power Meets Prayer at DC 'Family' House

C Street House members believe they 'transcend morality'

Jul 21, 09 2:20 PM CDT
ANALYSIS

Marital Woes Strike Ensign's Ex-Housemate

'Christian fellowship home' in DC was also Sanford hangout

Jul 17, 09 3:30 PM CDT
ANALYSIS

Ensign Facing
an Ethical Hot Potato, but no Legal Case (Yet)

Ex-lover would have
to make accusation

Jul 15, 09 10:13 AM CDT

 Ensign: I Won't Quit, 
 and I'll Run Again 

Disgraced senator says supporters don't want him to resign

Jul 14, 09 1:30 PM CDT

Ensign Blamed Wife in Letter
to Mistress

Husband releases note, raises possible felony charges

Jul 8, 09 7:17 PM CDT

Scandal Dogs Family Values Republicans

Sanford, Ensign aren't the only 1994 GOP frosh with marital woes

Jul 2, 09 8:44 AM CDT

Thune Takes Ensign's GOP Leadership Post

Policy Committee slot
is No. 4 in party's Senate hierarchy

Jun 25, 09 3:45 PM CDT
ANALYSIS

 Twitchy GOP 
 Absorbs Yet 
 Another Scandal 

From Sanford to Ensign, Republican leaders are falling down

Jun 25, 09 5:47 AM CDT
ANALYSIS

 Why GOP Sees Hope for 2010 

GOP could mount a comeback, if it plays smart

Jun 24, 09 10:34 AM CDT
ANALYSIS

Fox, Handed Ensign Affair, Commits Ugly Fumble


Jun 19, 09 5:31 PM CDT
UPDATED

Husband Outed Ensign Affair
to Fox News

Hampton's lawyer made 'exorbitant demands': senator

Jun 19, 09 1:55 PM CDT

Ensign Helped Aide's Hubby Get Pair of Jobs

Mistress' spouse worked for two firms with tight ties to senator

Jun 19, 09 8:48 AM CDT

Aide's Salary Doubled
During Affair With Senator

Woman's husband, son were also on senator's payroll

Jun 18, 09 2:09 AM CDT

Ensign Quits Senate GOP Leadership Post

Resigns as chair of Policy Committee
after admitting affair

Jun 17, 09 12:20 PM CDT
analysis

 Why This Affair 
 Won't  Be the 
 End of Ensign 

Resignation would endanger GOP seat

Jun 17, 09 10:01 AM CDT

Blackmail Triggered Senator's Affair Confession: Aides

Cuckolded husband demanded money from Ensign after tryst, according to sources

Jun 17, 09 2:41 AM CDT
talk show roundup

Transport Sec to Fellow GOPers: 
C'mon, Ride the Stimulus Train

But McCain wonders where bipartisanship is

Feb 8, 09 10:40 AM CST


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Galleon Scandal: Shocked, Shocked by Insider Trading

5
Nov 6, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

How is it that we get a major insider trading scandal every two decades or so? The last big one, which ultimately ensnarled Michael Milken, the legendary junk bond king, happened in the late eighties. The current one, with a mass of arrests yesterday, threatens the hedge fund industry. It seems reasonable to assume from the intermittent decades of prosecution that this particular sort of financial larceny is quite a rare bird and when it rears its head the Feds pounce.... More »

Rupert Murdoch Is Mad but Cute

10
Nov 5, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

The Wall Street Journal was a great paper. It is still a pretty great paper but it is not the great Wall Street Journal.... More »

Skype Lives!

15
Nov 4, 09 | 8:33 AM BY Michael Wolff

I follow entrepreneurial dramas the way other people follow sports (did somebody win the World Series?). In these comedies, tragedies,... More »

Why the GOP Will Rise Again

25
Nov 3, 09 | 9:11 AM BY Michael Wolff

The strange business that is going on in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which occupies some other universe than the one... More »

Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston: How They Took America

21
Nov 2, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

Of all the outcomes of the 2008 presidential election, the strangest, beyond the rise of Sarah Palin herself, is the success of Levi Johnston.... More »

Why the Media Is Taking So Long to Die

17
Oct 30, 09 | 9:21 AM BY Michael Wolff

I participated the other night in an oddly formal, anglophilic, Oxford-style, for-and-against-the-proposition debate on the topic of (you... More »

How the Internet Got Lost and Why Google’s GPS Won’t Show Us the Way Out

11
Oct 29, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

I had lunch yesterday with my old friend and former colleague, Chip Bayers, who, 15 years ago this week, after having left my fledgling... More »

Pot Will Save Us

39
Oct 28, 09 | 11:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Wow. Pot. Just like that, on its way to being legalized. Well, just like that after 50 years or so. In order to save itself from financial... More »

Is Obama a Sleaze?

31
Oct 27, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

So it turns out there’s a reason the president hasn’t wrapped up health care or Iraq, figured out Afghanistan, closed Guantanamo,... More »

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