Looking Like America Looking Like America
While the Administration denies media reports that it has given US forces in Iraq the go-ahead to shoot looters on sight, Donald Rumsfeld, testifying last week before the Senate ...
May 19, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Jokes in the News Jokes in the News
Sociologist Herbert Gans has a good idea. "What if the news media reported the best of the monologue material as well as the currently circulating political jokes and connected t...
May 15, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
George W–Hottie Flyboy? George W–Hottie Flyboy?
What is it with neocon women? They'll find any opportunity to bash the upper west side. In last Friday's Wall Street Journal, former Dan Quayle speech-writer and charter member ...
May 12, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Savage Standards? Savage Standards?
I was surprised when the producer from Chris Matthews' MSNBC show Hardball said they wanted me to talk about the controversy surrounding sportswriter Bob Ryan. Maybe I shouldn't ...
May 10, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Top Gun at Job Destruction Top Gun at Job Destruction
There's no denying that George Bush knows how to stage patriotic spectacles at sea, but the reality back on shore is not so technicolor pretty. Did you know that Top Gun Bush is ...
May 5, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Pity David Frum Pity David Frum
Conservative talking head and former Bush speechwriter David Frum was quoted yesterday by Howard Kurtz in his online Washington Post media column criticizing my "amazing breath c...
May 2, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Kerry & Dean–Where’s the Beef? Kerry & Dean–Where’s the Beef?
About a month ago, George Soros sent me a letter along with a copy of a recent speech he'd delivered offering his views on "America's Role in the World." (I'm sure I was one of t...
May 1, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Unbuilt Monuments Unbuilt Monuments
No monument will improve the lives of tens of millions of people living below the poverty line or repair Russia's ravaged public health system, idle factories, decaying farms, ...
Apr 28, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Emperor Bush Emperor Bush
Is Bush taking lessons from Julius Caesar? Apparently so. When Caesar's short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the founding of the Roman province of Gaul (modern F...
Apr 24, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Democracy Bush-Style? Democracy Bush-Style?
Skip the stories about pro-consul Jay Garner, Bechtel's war profiteering and the Bush Administration's professed commitment to building democracy in Iraq. For a clear-eyed view o...
Apr 22, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel