Sweet Victory: Fairness at Georgetown Sweet Victory: Fairness at Georgetown
After more than a week without food, the twenty-plus members ofGeorgetown's Living Wage Coalition started to have theirdoubts. The students, who began a hunger strike on March 15...
Mar 26, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
States Support the Underdogs States Support the Underdogs
What a month for the Green Mountain State. on March 18th, the VermontCatamounts stunned heavily favored Syracuse for their first NCAAtournament win in the team's 100-year history....
Mar 25, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cultural Barbarism Cultural Barbarism
The sterile term "collateral damage" justifiably brings to mind the human tragedy of war. But the devastating and wanton damage inflicted on the ancient city of Babylon by US-led ...
Mar 23, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Congress on Steroids Congress on Steroids
When appearing before the House Government Reform Committee last week, Mark McGwire didn't want to talk about his past. It was an appropriate place to develop historical amnesia. ...
Mar 22, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory:Taking Back the Campuses Sweet Victory:Taking Back the Campuses
For all the talk of left-wing bias in academia, little notice has been given to the right's growing influence on America's college campuses. As part of the conservative message ma...
Mar 18, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Andy Stern Speaks His Mind Andy Stern Speaks His Mind
"Andy Stern is not shy about speaking his mind," veteran labor reporter David Moberg wrote in our recent cover story, Can't Workers of the Word Unite? In these last months, Stern ...
Mar 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Talking with Andy Stern Talking with Andy Stern
Excerpt from DMI "Marketplace of Ideas" Series with SEIU President Andy Stern. March 14, 2005. New York City, New York. Hon. Carl McCall: President Stern I have a practical quest...
Mar 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Yo Quiero Justice! Sweet Victory: Yo Quiero Justice!
On Tuesday, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers scored aprecedent-setting victory for America's beleaguered farm workers. After three years of a CIW-led boycott against Taco Bell,...
Mar 11, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sunshine Is the Best Disinfectant Sunshine Is the Best Disinfectant
At a time when we need accountability more than ever in Washington, when corruption and ethical violations are sweeping our capital, we must turn to groups like Citizens for Respo...
Mar 9, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
GM Chair for National Healthcare? GM Chair for National Healthcare?
G. Richard Wagoner, Jr., chairman and chief executive of General Motors, is urging business and federal and state government leaders to find what the Washington Post described asÂ...
Mar 8, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel