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 / 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 / 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 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Radical Cheerleaders Radical Cheerleaders
Radical cheerleaders. Must be a lefty fantasy, right? Nope. Cheerleaders may be wholesome symbols of America like apple pie, the flag and Bill Bennett (before May 2003.) But now ...
May 23, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Race With No Winners A Race With No Winners
After weeks of searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, there's still no trace of the fearsome arsenal the Administration advertised. Back in the US, however, the Bush ...
May 22, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Memo to Dems: Passion & Principles Matter Memo to Dems: Passion & Principles Matter
At a forum in Iowa this past Saturday, organized by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, most of the Dems angling for their party's nomination finall...
May 20, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
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