Moscow Remembers Politkovskaya Moscow Remembers Politkovskaya
Heidi Hoogerbeets, a graduate student at Columbia University's Harriman Institute, traveled to Moscow last week to participate in memorial events for the courageous Russian journa...
Oct 8, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
World War II Interrogators Denounce Administration World War II Interrogators Denounce Administration
On Friday, President Bush lied to the American people, as he has many times before, telling us that "this government does not torture people." But the metastasizing recor...
Oct 8, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Anna Politkovskaya’s Legacy Anna Politkovskaya’s Legacy
One year ago, the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered. The fearless, crusading journalist for Russia's leading opposition newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, was just 48 year...
Oct 4, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama and Edwards Get It on Nukes Obama and Edwards Get It on Nukes
Today, Senator Barack Obama will propose setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world. This proposal should be be celebrated. It is a sign of Obama's commitment ...
Oct 2, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Shifting Targets Shifting Targets
Last week, the Senate -- via the Kyl-Lieberman Senate resolution -- handed the Bush Administration a close-to-blank check for military strikes against Iran. The resolution accuses...
Oct 1, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ending War for Profit Ending War for Profit
Based on the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard public finance lecturer Linda J. Bilmes, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) recently d...
Sep 27, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush, the Bomb and Iran Bush, the Bomb and Iran
To bomb or not to bomb Iran, that's the question the Bush Administration appears to be debating these days, once again revealing the extraordinary disconnect between the White Hou...
Sep 23, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Exciting for Puzzlers Exciting for Puzzlers
From Saturday's New York Times Crossword: 14-across, Weekly since 1865 Somewhere in between... 26-across, ___ Paradise of Kerouac's "On the Road" ..... 53-across, When ...
Sep 23, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dan Rather Won’t Take any “Bullshine” Dan Rather Won’t Take any “Bullshine”
It was riveting television. There was former CBS news anchor Dan Rather, sitting across from CNN's Larry King, railing against the threat powerful media corporations pose to freed...
Sep 21, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
“The Fat Lady Has Not Sung Yet” “The Fat Lady Has Not Sung Yet”
The people of the nation's capital – all 600,000 of them – came closer than ever before to long sought after voting representation in Congress yesterday. But in the end, bipa...
Sep 19, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel