Lessons of the NBA Lessons of the NBA
One of the big sports stories of the year was the Detroit Pistons' amazing upset of the formidable LA Lakers in the NBA championship series. Paul Richards, veteran Democratic Pa...
Jun 22, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Clinton & Bush–the Truth, the Lies, the Consequences Clinton & Bush–the Truth, the Lies, the Consequences
When former Clinton special prosecutor Kenneth Starr resurfaced in a sanctimonious interview on PBS's new Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered last Friday, it seemed like a nightmarish tim...
Jun 20, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Former Bush (41) and Reagan Officials Say Bush (43) Must Go Former Bush (41) and Reagan Officials Say Bush (43) Must Go
these old hands are taking a stand against the most arrogant and incompetent foreign policy in their lifetimes.
Jun 16, 2004 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Former Bush (41) and Reagan Officials Say Bush (43) Must Go Former Bush (41) and Reagan Officials Say Bush (43) Must Go
Today a group of former senior diplomatic officials and retired military commanders--several of whom are the kind who "have never spoken out before" on such matters--issued a bra...
Jun 16, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Week in the War Against Labor A Week in the War Against Labor
Somehow it seemed fitting that the week former President Ronald Reagan died, the United States was named as one of the world's most serious violators of worker's rights. The othe...
Jun 13, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘Mad as Hell’ ‘Mad as Hell’
There's a stealth issue in this presidential campaign that could go far in determining the election results. I'm talking about the rising gas, phone, electricity, milk and cable ...
Jun 10, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Signs of Revival Signs of Revival
Thursday's Wall Street Journal reports that "the American left is seeing signs of political revival" as Bush's economic and foreign policies alienate growing numbers of Americans...
Jun 4, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Responsive Chords Responsive Chords
The pioneering genius of political advertising, Tony Schwartz, used to preach that the most effective ads don't seek to convey information but to reach into the target audiences'...
Jun 2, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
An Image of America An Image of America
A close friend writes: "Here is something I ran across in the new Collected Poems of Robert Lowell (sorry, I know poetry isn't your thing). It's in a note to The Quaker Graveyard...
Jun 2, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
It’s Not a War on Terror It’s Not a War on Terror
It's time to stop calling the post 9/11 struggle against terrorism a "war." Iraq is a (disastrous) war; Afghanistan was a brief one. But the struggle against stateless terrorists...
Jun 2, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel