August’s Big Pharma Scandals August’s Big Pharma Scandals
August may be a slow news month, but not for stories about what's wrong with the drug industry. In just one recent week, the New York Times published three articles that exposed w...
Aug 19, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
People’s Petition for a Way Out of Iraq People’s Petition for a Way Out of Iraq
A campaign is being launched this week by a host of groups including Progressive Democrats of America, Peace Action and others to demand an exit strategy from Iraq. A central part...
Aug 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Woolsey Says No to Nukes Sweet Victory: Woolsey Says No to Nukes
This past weekend, thousands of activists gathered at Los Alamos and other prominent nuclear facilities across the country to mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings of J...
Aug 12, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Religion and the Left Religion and the Left
Last month, Rabbi Michael Lerner--the founding editor of Tikkun magazine--convened a Conference on Spiritual Activism in Berkeley. It was there that he launched a new organization...
Aug 9, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: MM at 25 Sweet Victory: MM at 25
In an age in which corporate malfeasance abounds, too much of the mainstream media has been unaccountably lax in covering the abuses of big business. Luckily for us--and unluckily...
Aug 4, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Leave No God Behind Leave No God Behind
Days after Bill Frist, the White House's choice for Senate majority leader, turned his back on religious conservatives to support federal funding for stem cell research, President...
Aug 3, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Anti-Sweet Victory: The Week From Hell Anti-Sweet Victory: The Week From Hell
This was supposed to be a Sweet Victory post. That's the weekly feature Sam Graham-Felsen and I started last fall. In those grim days after the election, we believed that one anti...
Jul 29, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Meets Mick (Jagger) Bush Meets Mick (Jagger)
A couple of months ago, with the help of terrific song suggestions from Nation readers, I put together a playlist for Dubya's iPod. Radiohead's Hail to the Thief, Green Day's Amer...
Jul 29, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The House of Labor and the Future The House of Labor and the Future
So, with the heaving sound of an old tree suddenly splitting apart in a storm, the labor movement is finally breaking up. On Sunday, leaders of four of the country's largest labo...
Jul 26, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Corruption Machine The Corruption Machine
At a time when the scale of corruption in Congress has risen to obscene heights, the fight to achieve a clean government has heated up–and the good Senator from Wisconsin, Russe...
Jul 24, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel