The November Surprise? The November Surprise?
With eight days to go before election day, it's the "November Surprise" that we need to worry about. Every day brings reports of voter intimidation and suppression in the key batt...
Oct 25, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Who’s His Daddy? Who’s His Daddy?
Bush famously told Bob Woodward that when it came to going to war with Iraq he didn't ask his biological father, who had gone to war with Iraq, for advice. He talked to a Higher F...
Oct 25, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
You Have the Power You Have the Power
I wrote nearly twelve months ago in this space about the importance of building progressive strength in 2004 and beyond. A year later, progressives have hope in the decade ahead, ...
Oct 20, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Scowcroft Blasts W. Scowcroft Blasts W.
Remember how Bush One's National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft used a Wall Street Journal op-ed in the run-up to the Iraq war to warn Bush Two about the perils of an invasion? ...
Oct 19, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Faux-Outrage Faux-Outrage
Have you noticed that when Lynne Cheney thunders about being an "indignant mother" she can't repress a smile? And when husband Dick says he's an "angry father," he's smirking? T...
Oct 17, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Debate III: Return of the Frat Boy Debate III: Return of the Frat Boy
What did we learn about Bush from the last debate? He doesn't believe terrorism can ever be reduced to a "nuisance," which means he believes the War of Terror will be a war witho...
Oct 15, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
DEBATE: Litmus Tests DEBATE: Litmus Tests
Bush's slip in the third debate was about Osama, but his big, calculated lie last night was, as in the second debate, about the Supreme Court. Bush said he wouldn't apply a "litmu...
Oct 14, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Woman of Firsts A Woman of Firsts
When Waangari Maathai got news that she had received the Nobel Peace Prize, she removed her jewelry, knelt down in the dirt and planted seeds of a Kenyan tree known as the Nandi F...
Oct 11, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Revolt Against Big Pharma The Revolt Against Big Pharma
In recent months, we've seen a full-scale revolt over the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs in this country. Two weeks ago, a high-level dissident executive from Pfizer, t...
Oct 8, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Saving the Middle Class Saving the Middle Class
In Orlando, Florida just hours after the first presidential debate, a reinvigorated John Kerry told a crowd at Freedom High School that he had a message for every "middle-class Am...
Oct 6, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel