A Year of Sweet Victories A Year of Sweet Victories
Among the sweetest victories of 2005: Social Security reform has been blocked, pressure to withdraw from Iraq is growing and progressive activists are making progress on local, sta...
Dec 15, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Sam Graham-Felsen
“The War Against Christmas” “The War Against Christmas”
Not since Iraqi WMD has there been a bogus news story more loved by the conservative media than the quote-unquote "War against Christmas." So complete is their martyrdom-like pas...
Dec 14, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Lying, Dirty Tricksters Lying, Dirty Tricksters
"We call our stuff information and the enemy's propaganda," says Col. Jack N. Summe, former commander of the Fourth Psychological Operations Group, in Jeff Gerth's masterful, must...
Dec 12, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Annals of Outrage III Annals of Outrage III
Last May, I wrote an Annals of Outrage II chronicling the waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government in the first half of 2004. Plenty of time has passed since my last p...
Dec 8, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dictionary of Republicanisms Sequel Dictionary of Republicanisms Sequel
I want to thank again all the loyal readers whose outpouring of interest and words of kindness have made The Dictionary of Republicanisms such a rewarding experience. All of us mu...
Dec 6, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
John Murtha’s Johnstown John Murtha’s Johnstown
If you want to better understand how public opinion on the war in Iraq has reached a turning point, visit Johnstown in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional district. It's a socially ...
Dec 5, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Nation’s Strongest Campaign Finance Bill Passes in CT. Nation’s Strongest Campaign Finance Bill Passes in CT.
"At the national level, we are seeing the most outrageous string of pay-to-play scandals in a generation," wrote Nick Nyhart, co-founder and Executive Director of Public Campaign...
Dec 2, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Doing Time Doing Time
Republicans may want to reconsider their current efforts to curtail habeas corpus, since it looks like they are intent on taking over yet another branch of government, the federal...
Nov 29, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dictionary of Republicanisms Dictionary of Republicanisms
Compassionate conservativism n. An expensively cultivated phrase created by a decades-old and well-funded Radical Right program of Orwellian doublespeak.
Nov 22, 2005 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Plight of Public Universities The Plight of Public Universities
There's a crisis in this country in higher education--and the House GOP's reckless fiscal policies are making it worse. To pay for the rebuilding costs associated with Hurricane K...
Nov 21, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel