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
Fake Republicanism Fake Republicanism
If there was any lingering doubt that President Bush is a recklessextremist rather than a true conservative, an extraordinary letter by theson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower sh...
Sep 30, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Concerts for Change Concerts for Change
"I've got 25 years of credibility built up, and this isn't something I've moved into lightly," Bruce Springsteen says on the eve of his first Vote for Change concert in Philadel...
Sep 30, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Scientists and Engineers for Change Scientists and Engineers for Change
They may not be as hot as Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, the Dixie Chicks and other musicians participating in the "Vote for Change" concert tour launching next month in swing ...
Sep 29, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
United Progressives for Victory United Progressives for Victory
Yesterday, more than fifty national antiwar leaders released a letter to potential Nader voters. Many of the signers are longtime activists who have been central in organizing eff...
Sep 28, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel