Where’s the Accountability? Where’s the Accountability?
Remember the outrage over Bill Clinton's dissembling about Monica? But where's the outrage on the right over this Administration's manipulation of intelligence regarding Iraq's W...
Jun 9, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Reality TV and Historical Amnesia Reality TV and Historical Amnesia
As Gore Vidal likes to say, we're living in the United States of Amnesia. If you had any reason to doubt the great man, check out the new reality shows crowding our TV screens cu...
Jun 7, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Risks of Inaction The Risks of Inaction
Remember Vice President Dick Cheney's dire warning, in the run-up to war against Iraq: "The risks of inaction are far greater than the risk of action." I'd like to see Congressio...
Jun 6, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The United States of France? The United States of France?
Condoleezza Rice is still lecturing the French for refusing to support war against Iraq. Congress is still serving "freedom" fries for lunch. Donald Rumsfeld has consigned France...
Jun 4, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Another World is (Still) Possible Another World is (Still) Possible
In these days of defensive shadow boxing, it's a rare world leader who has something visionary to say. But amidst the pompous rituals of the G-8 summit in Evian, France, Brazilia...
Jun 4, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Burying Torture Burying Torture
The great journalist and former Nation Washington editor I.F. Stone, who often saw what others missed, once told David Halberstam that the Washington Post was an exciting paper t...
Jun 3, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Saturday at Jimmy’s Uptown Saturday at Jimmy’s Uptown
It was conceived as the beginning of a conversation about how to raise issues of social and economic justice through music, journalism, literature, TV, theatre and film. The ...
Jun 2, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Doing it Right Doing it Right
"Running for President? Health Care Better Be Your Priority" is the hard-to-miss slogan on a poster in the Des Moines, Iowa airport. Dreamt up by the Service Employees Internatio...
May 30, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Doing Clinton: Good for Business Doing Clinton: Good for Business
A few weeks ago I argued that rightwing talk show hosts like Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Joe Scarborough could go out of business if they didn't have Bill and Hillary to kick...
May 29, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dump ‘Scoop’ Dump ‘Scoop’
I agree that if the Dems want to win in 2004, they have to lay out a principled and pragmatic alternative to Bush's failed national security policies. But it's crazy to argue, as...
May 28, 2003 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel