Kennedy’s Other Speech Kennedy’s Other Speech
Senator Edward Kennedy gave two magnificent speeches last week, but only one received the attention it deserved. While his blistering attack on the Bush Administration for mani...
Mar 10, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Big Fat Fraud A Big Fat Fraud
Bush's 9/11 campaign commercials are reckless and offensive. Depicting firefighters carrying bodies, draped in American flags, out of the World Trade Center rubble, they triviali...
Mar 9, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Clear Channel vs. the First Amendment Clear Channel vs. the First Amendment
"We must preserve radio as a medium for democracy." Sen. Russ Feingold, on January 30, 2003, before the Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on Media Concentration and Ownership i...
Mar 5, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Let’s End the Two-Party Duopoly Let’s End the Two-Party Duopoly
When Ralph Nader chided what he called the "liberal intelligentsia" for appealing to him not to run in 2004 as "a contemptuous statement against democracy, against freedom, agai...
Mar 3, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cash Cowboys & Other Bush Donors Cash Cowboys & Other Bush Donors
As President George W. Bush prepares to launch his first broadcast ads of the political season next week, it is clear that his well-groomed and well-rewarded donor network is doi...
Feb 24, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Jesse, Jerry and Pat Jesse, Jerry and Pat
You never know who you'll meet in the "green room." Recently,while waiting to be grilled by Chris Matthews on MSNBC I ran into the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who had just come from...
Feb 19, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Barrage of Bush Books Barrage of Bush Books
When White House spokesman Scott McClellan was asked recently about The Price of Loyalty, the best-seller about former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill's disillusionment with the ...
Feb 19, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Welcome to Empire Welcome to Empire
Last month, the Columbia Journalism Review ran a cover story about the death of dangerous art in the mainstream media. In the piece, a number of top illustrators complained abou...
Feb 19, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Lowry–Get A Conscience! Lowry–Get A Conscience!
What planet does Rich Lowry live on? National Review's editor--someone I've sparred with on TV many times--recently weighed in on the causes of poverty. It "has nothing to do wit...
Feb 19, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
MSNBC Under ‘Seige’ MSNBC Under ‘Seige’
Are Bush's plunging poll numbers rattling them over at MSNBC's Scarborough Country? The other day, CBS News had Kerry topping Bush is more "tied to special interests" than Kerr...
Feb 19, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel