Sweet Victory: Celebrating ACORN Sweet Victory: Celebrating ACORN
The events of the past two weeks have laid bare America's secret: that poverty abounds in this profoundly unequal nation. As the body count in New Orleans rises, it has become ab...
Sep 13, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Contributing to Hurricane Katrina Relief Contributing to Hurricane Katrina Relief
Yesterday's New York Times's Sunday Styles section had a story about those of us called Katrina, and how we are handling the fact that we share a name with a Hurricane which has c...
Sep 12, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Repairing the Breach Repairing the Breach
It's Time for a New "New Deal" New Orleans is destroyed, the Gulf Coast'sinfrastructure is in tatters and tens of thousands ofcitizens are without jobs as gas prices nationwideri...
Sep 8, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Have You No Shame? Have You No Shame?
As Republicans desperately cry out of one corner of their mouths to stop the blame game, they have been blaming everyone but themselves since this catastrophe. Let's look at their...
Sep 7, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Poverty of Our Nation…and the Poverty of Our Politics The Poverty of Our Nation…and the Poverty of Our Politics
Mark Naison on Race, Class and the Disaster As Joan Walsh wrote in Salon last week, "The horror in New Orleans exposed the nation's dirty secrets of race and poverty." But as...
Sep 5, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘Indifference Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction’ ‘Indifference Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction’
On Friday, during a special session to provide relief money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, Representative Dennis Kucinich delivered a powerful indictment of the Administ...
Sep 4, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Messing With Mother Nature Messing With Mother Nature
Rush Limbaugh would should skip the juvenile hurricane jokes and summon up some genuine empathy for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Sep 1, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Messing With Mother Nature Messing With Mother Nature
(This post was updated on August 31, 2005) Like all Americans, I was horrified watching pictures of the destruction wrought by the hurricane. And like others who share the name K...
Aug 30, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Importance of Being Lazy The Importance of Being Lazy
It's a late August midnight, I'm on vacation, a hurricane named Katrina is heading to Florida--and I'm online. Like some 40 percent of Americans, I have spent half of my time this...
Aug 26, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ground Control to Major George Ground Control to Major George
There is something profoundly disturbing about the fact that the Commander in Chief is in better shape than his Army, that he has time to ride his bike around his ranch for hours ...
Aug 23, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel