A Message to Congress A Message to Congress
It's time for Congress to stop talking and start moving on Iraq.
Feb 7, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Defense Budget Follies (continued) Defense Budget Follies (continued)
With President Bush's latest budget request of $245 billion for the "global war on terror" (and a warning from administration officials that there are more funding requests to com...
Feb 6, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What’s Wrong With This Picture? What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped, What's good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when you reach the top You're on...
Feb 5, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
From the Basement to Rayburn From the Basement to Rayburn
On Wednesday, the Congressional Progressive Caucus – now the largest caucus in Congress with 69 members – co-hosted a panel discussion along with The Nation and the Institute ...
Feb 2, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Occupying Melting Glaciers Occupying Melting Glaciers
Amid his plan to escalate the war in Iraq, and his dead-on-arrival health care proposal, barely noticed in President Bush's State of the Union address was the call to permanently ...
Feb 1, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Big Russ and the VP Big Russ and the VP
If I were Tim Russert I'd be as hopping mad as a Buffalo Bills fan on any given Sunday. First, Dick Cheney's office tried to scapegoat him in the Plamegate scandal and then Cheney...
Jan 30, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Politics of Motherhood The Politics of Motherhood
Today's New York Times has a cover story about women politicians and the politics of motherhood. As a woman, a wife, a mother, a step-grandmother of four, and the editor of ...
Jan 29, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Not a Single Word Not a Single Word
On the day before the State of the Union address, Senator James Webb said, "If we're putting all of this money into Iraq and ignoring New Orleans, then we're doing something wrong...
Jan 24, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The State of Healthcare The State of Healthcare
According to the Bush administration, the new health care plan that the President unveiled in the State of the Union address Tuesday would cover three million people who are curr...
Jan 23, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ending Folly in Iraq Ending Folly in Iraq
A recent CBS News poll reveals that over 70 percent of Americans believe President Bush should obtain congressional authorization before escalating the war in Iraq. And a new Was...
Jan 23, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel