America Needs a New New Deal America Needs a New New Deal
We should apply FDR's principles of relief, reform and reconstruction to our current financial crisis.
Sep 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Eric Schlosser
Obama– Minimalist Debater? Obama– Minimalist Debater?
Barack Obama not only had the good judgment to oppose the war in Iraq, he argued for the need "to end the mindset that took us into" that war. So it was troubling that tonight---i...
Sep 27, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Best Bailout Money Can Buy The Best Bailout Money Can Buy
Could the need for real and aggressive campaign finance reform be any clearer than it is now?The Bush Administration continues to hawk its $700 billion bonanza bailout for Wall St...
Sep 27, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Give Main Street a Fair Shake Give Main Street a Fair Shake
The Administration has put a corporate-led bailout on the table with the threat that Congress pass it as is or face aworldwide economic catastrophe. We've seen this kind of shoc...
Sep 22, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
US Vets Fight for the Vote US Vets Fight for the Vote
Update: September 19, 11:18 a.m.The House passed its companion legislation, H.R.6625. Howard Gantman, Staff Director of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, said th...
Sep 18, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Unbearable Lightness of Election 2008 The Unbearable Lightness of Election 2008
This should be a big election about big issues. The greatest financial crisis since the Depression. Soaring global debt. Collapsing public infrastructure. A broken health care...
Sep 16, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Return to Sanity Return to Sanity
Dick Cavett got it about right when he wrote the other day, "There's something almost funny in the idea that she [Palin] is being speedily stuffed, Strasbourg-goose-style, with kn...
Sep 15, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Million Doors Open for Peace A Million Doors Open for Peace
At this moment, when the mainstream media has largely abandoned coverage of the Iraq War and the majority antiwar opinion, the presidential campaign is underwhelming in offering ...
Sep 10, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bernie Strikes Back Bernie Strikes Back
I was watching Charlie Rose on Wednesday night during the GOP confab, when Senator Orrin Hatch appeared and took this recurring shot used by the Republican attack dogs: "In all ho...
Sep 8, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Inside Palin’s Politics Inside Palin’s Politics
Wednesday night I did a CBS Webcast with Katie Couric and sparred with Republican strategist Barbara Comstock over Sarah Palin -- what she represents and where she would lead the...
Sep 5, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel