Sweet Victory: People Over Profits in Brazil Sweet Victory: People Over Profits in Brazil
Each day, while pharmaceutical companies prosper, 8,500 people in the global South die of AIDS. Thanks to strict intellectual property laws that keep drug prices sky-high, only 7 ...
Jul 1, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rove on the Couch Rove on the Couch
As you all have heard, Karl Rove said liberals wanted to offer the terrorists therapy after 9/11. I know a lot of liberals. None of them were talking about counseling Osama bin La...
Jun 28, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Vilsack Restores Voting Rights Sweet Victory: Vilsack Restores Voting Rights
This August marks the fortieth anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Upon sending the bill to Congress, Lyndon Johnson stated, "But even if we pass this bill, the ...
Jun 24, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Recruiters Sink to New Lows Recruiters Sink to New Lows
During the Vietnam War, protesters burned draft cards, rallied on campuses and marched on Robert McNamara's Pentagon. Today, with the war in Iraq raging on and on, parents, teache...
Jun 21, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Beginning of the End? The Beginning of the End?
"We see this as the beginning of the end," said Tom Andrews, a former Democratic representative from Maine who is executive director of the antiwar group Win Without War. "It's th...
Jun 19, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Blogging Iran Blogging Iran
Today, voters in Iran cast ballots for a new President--choosing from a field of eight candidates that includes hardline clerics and reformers. The campaign has underscored how dr...
Jun 17, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
From Freedom Fries to… From Freedom Fries to…
Congressman Walter Jones is a Republican from North Carolina, he voted for the war in Iraq, and he coined the term Freedom Fries. So he's obviously no peacenik, but he is the firs...
Jun 16, 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. Last weekend the SEIU executive board authorized its lead...
Jun 15, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
It’s Class, Stupid! It’s Class, Stupid!
In recent weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have run a series of articles about issues of class and inequality in America. These two media pillars have compr...
Jun 8, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dumping on Dean Dumping on Dean
Congressional Democrats never supported Dean for DNC chair. They wanted someone lower-profile and less hyperbolic. Apparently they wanted someone like RNC Chair Ken Mehlman. Still...
Jun 7, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel