Bernie Sanders Fights for Green Collar Jobs Bernie Sanders Fights for Green Collar Jobs
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is excited. And when Sanders - longtime maverick populist - is in that frame of mind, you know something right and smart is in the works. In thi...
Jun 13, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
President Lieberman: A Cautionary Tale President Lieberman: A Cautionary Tale
What would have happened if, by some twist of fate, Sen. Joe Lieberman had ended up in the White House instead of George W. Bush?
Jun 13, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Shawskank Redemption Shawskank Redemption
First she name-dropped "the men and women serving our country in Iraq," and then moved on to God. With that kind of rhetoric, you'd think Ms. Hilton was running for offic...
Jun 12, 2007 / Lakshmi Chaudhry
Where Is the Love? Where Is the Love?
None of us will soon forget that terrible Tuesday in November 2004 when the exit polling said one thing and Ohio said another, when values was the thing, Karl Rove was a genius, an...
Jun 12, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Of Groceries, Abortions, and Nice, Classic Handbags Of Groceries, Abortions, and Nice, Classic Handbags
I was planning to start this blog by writing about The New York Times Sunday Magazine's special issue on income inequality -- Larry Summers (him again!), John Edwards, class co...
Jun 12, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Russian Protests: The Big Guessing Game Russian Protests: The Big Guessing Game
After a surprisingly peaceful weekend of rallies, the first signs of dialogue between the Other Russia movement and the Kremlin are emerging. Will it last?
The Judgment of Paris The Judgment of Paris
Last Friday, as the "The Judgment of Paris" media circus filled our airwaves (those very airwaves which, as FCC Commissioner Michael Copps recently reminded us in an intelligent N...
Jun 12, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Trouble With the Super-Rich The Trouble With the Super-Rich
A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass.
Jun 12, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Foreign Agent Fred Foreign Agent Fred
The mainstream media is starting to pay attention to Fred Thompson's decades-long gig as a well-heeled Washington lobbyist. His client list has been noted in this space and elsewhe...
Jun 12, 2007 / Ari Berman
Save the Internet–Again Save the Internet–Again
Concerned citizens nationwide are rallying to stop the latest phone and cable company assault on Internet freedom as the Federal Communications Commission weighs new rules to prot...
Jun 12, 2007 / Peter Rothberg