We’re All Californians Now We’re All Californians Now
"Is California Crazy?" was how The Week magazine billed its political discussion yesterday. Journalists (and gossip columnists, politicos, NYC fixtures and one of California's 13...
Oct 2, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Op-Ed or Op-Ad? Op-Ed or Op-Ad?
Has the Washington Post op-ed page gone into the "Op-Ad" business? In early September, the paper published an op-ed piece by Mark Penn, a paid political adviser to Democratic Pre...
Sep 22, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Déjà Vu With Condoleezza Rice Déjà Vu With Condoleezza Rice
One good measure of this Administration's extremism is the steady drumbeat of criticism being leveled against it by leading establishment figures--many not known for being politi...
Sep 22, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What’s He Smoking? What’s He Smoking?
Maybe it's a drug problem? Comedian D.L. Hughley may just be on to something. Take Hughley's recent exchange with neocon Bill Kristol, editor of Rupert Murdoch's Weekly Standard,...
Sep 21, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Material Mom Material Mom
"I want to do everything," Madonna said recently. I thought she was talking about positions. (I was a keen reader of her X-rated 1992 book of photography, Sex.) My twelve year ol...
Sep 19, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Wesley Clark’s ‘High Noon’ Moment Wesley Clark’s ‘High Noon’ Moment
It was reported today that retired four-star General, ardent critic of Bush's national security policies, telegenic TV commentator, and recently declared Democrat Wesley Clark w...
Sep 12, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Richard Perle: The Price of Arrogance? Richard Perle: The Price of Arrogance?
So, Richard Perle--a man whose arrogance knows no limits, whose countless op-eds and television appearances about the imminent threat Iraq posed to the US deceived the American p...
Sep 6, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Battling Bush from the Grave Battling Bush from the Grave
(Update on "Sally Baron RIP") The AP reports explaining that Wisconsite Baron's family had asked that memorials in her honor be made to any organization working for the remova...
Sep 4, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
America’s New Anti-Imperialists America’s New Anti-Imperialists
In 1898, the Anti-Imperialist League was established to oppose America's territorial expansion, especially the "liberation" of the Philippines from Spain. Long before a Presiden...
Sep 3, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush’s Southern Problem Bush’s Southern Problem
"Any Democratic candidate will be destroyed in the South," gloated Chris Caldwell in a recent issue of the Weekly Standard. Caldwell should head to Greenville, South Carolina, on...
Aug 26, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel