Needed: Enlightened Business Leaders Needed: Enlightened Business Leaders
When I read last month that James Rowse--the chairman of Veryfine Products Inc., the juice bottling concern, Âhad died, I thought of how this man's life embodied a much more enli...
Dec 13, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
No Shortcut to Power No Shortcut to Power
Have you heard about the sweet victory of the week? The Working Families Party, and other allies in New York State's fight for economic justice, won a six-year campaign to raise t...
Dec 9, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Kids Are Alright The Kids Are Alright
Music for America (MfA) is Example A of why the future is for the young and MfA-type organizations who are inspired now more than ever to continue to effect positive change. Twent...
Dec 6, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Republican Dictionary: Part 2 Republican Dictionary: Part 2
Earlier this month, I wrote about the right's linguistic strategy, which is to use words, which may sound moderate to us but mean something completely different to its base. To ...
Dec 3, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cabinet Alert Status: Red Cabinet Alert Status: Red
With Tom Ridge following Colin Powell out the White House revolving door, George Bush has finally completed his purge of Vietnam veterans from the Cabinet. Call it the revenge of ...
Dec 1, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Truth and Consequences in Ukraine Truth and Consequences in Ukraine
A Russian friend once said to me, "You Americans are an odd people. You love our liberals, but you don't like your own liberals." He added, "You should support your local liberal...
Nov 29, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Desperate Republicans Desperate Republicans
In the pregame highlights for the next two years of Republican one-party rule, rightwing radicals dropped their towels and exposed themselves in all their naked ambition last week...
Nov 23, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Modest Appointments Modest Appointments
Bush has appointed Torture Guy to run the American "Justice" Department, his "work wife" to serve as America's top diplomat, and a partisan hatchet man, Porter Goss, to subject th...
Nov 22, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dean Tells It Like It Is Dean Tells It Like It Is
If you want some straight talk in these days of the Democratic Leadership Council's calls to retreat to a monastery or move to the center, check out Howard Dean's feisty comments ...
Nov 17, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Creeping Creationism Creeping Creationism
Some days it feels like 1925--when William Jennings Bryan defended the merits of creationism in the Scopes Monkey trial--all over again. I've written before about how the Right w...
Nov 16, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel