Butter Over Guns Butter Over Guns
In a recent post, Todd Gitlin rightly calls out "the huge missing argument in Washington" against 54% of our discretionary spending going to the military budget -- and that doesn'...
Dec 18, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Zero Nukes Zero Nukes
An important and inspiring new group, Global Zero, launched in Paris this week with a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in 20 to 25 years. More than 100 prominent military,...
Dec 13, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Blagojevich Moment The Blagojevich Moment
It is absolutely mind boggling to read of the pay-to-play corruption gone wild in the indictment against Governor Rod Blagojevich -- from withholding money for a children's hospit...
Dec 10, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
To Spend or Not to Spend? To Spend or Not to Spend?
One day after the government reported the worst hemorrhaging of jobs in a month since 1974 -- with 533,000 jobs lost in November -- President-elect Barack Obama revealed aspects o...
Dec 9, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Shinseki–The General Who Battled Rumsfeld Shinseki–The General Who Battled Rumsfeld
In June 2003 I wrote about how General Eric Shinseki, the Army Chief of Staff, was shunted aside by the arrogant civilians running Defense--Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith. ( I post t...
Dec 7, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bread, Bombs, and the Big Stimulus Bread, Bombs, and the Big Stimulus
In 2007, over 37 million Americans, or 12.5 percent of the US population, lived below the federal poverty line--$21,200 for a family of four (well below the income truly required ...
Dec 3, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Robert Gates: Wrong Man for the Job Robert Gates: Wrong Man for the Job
Barack Obama not only had the good judgment to oppose the war in Iraqbut , as he told us earlier this year, "I want to end the mindset thatgot us into war." So it is troubling th...
Dec 1, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Moving Obama Moving Obama
Progressives need to be as clear-eyed, tough and pragmatic about Obama as he is about us.
Nov 25, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Andy Stern on the New Moment Andy Stern on the New Moment
Like any reformer, SEIU President Andy Stern has his admirers and his critics. I understand the critics' arguments. But I also think Stern is a visionary labor figure. When in ...
Nov 25, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Let’s Be Clear About Obama Let’s Be Clear About Obama
There are some interesting conversations and debates underway atthenation.com (see especially Chris Hayes at Capitolism, "Left Out") and in the progressive blogos...
Nov 24, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel