Daschle Must Go (UPDATED) Daschle Must Go (UPDATED)
UPDATE: Sunday night, I urged President Barack Obama to withdraw former SenatorTom Daschle's nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services inorder to "revive the change br...
Feb 1, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Debating the Stimulus Debating the Stimulus
This morning we were out in force on television, debating the efficacyof HR 1, President Obama's Economic Recovery Act. Like others, I'vepushed for more spending on infrastructur...
Jan 29, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Vote Means Dignity A Vote Means Dignity
In 2007, the 600,000 disenfranchised residents of Washington, DC werejust three votes shy of overcoming aRepublican filibuster and passing legislation to givethem a voting repres...
Jan 28, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Getting Afghanistan Right Getting Afghanistan Right
I want to let people know about a valuable coalition I'm working with. It's focused on encouraging the Obama administration to rethink its plans to escalate militarily in Afghanis...
Jan 23, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
How Audacious Will Obama Choose to Be? How Audacious Will Obama Choose to Be?
Note: A shorter version of this essay appears in today's edition of the Wall Street Journal. President Barack Obama takes office at a time defined by hope and fear in equal measu...
Jan 21, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tone and Challenge in the Obama Era Tone and Challenge in the Obama Era
"Never in our national history has there been so dramatic acoincidence as this simultaneous transfer of power and the complete collapse of a system and of a philosophy." Resonan...
Jan 20, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Van Jones and the Green Revolution Van Jones and the Green Revolution
Van Jones, President of Green for All and a Nation contributor, came to DC on Thursday to talk to the House Select Committee on EnergyIndependence and Global Warming about a Gree...
Jan 16, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Miracle on the Hudson The Miracle on the Hudson
I've hated flying ever since 1978, when the plane I was on was hijacked. Every time there is a plane disaster, as there was Thursday afternoon, I think of the innocent people on...
Jan 16, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Escalation Without a Plan Escalation Without a Plan
Does this sound familiar? "We have no strategic plan. We never had one." That's how a senior US military commander described the war in Afghanistan to Washington Post reporter...
Jan 14, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Will Obama Find Time to Dine with Progressive Thinkers & Writers Will Obama Find Time to Dine with Progressive Thinkers & Writers
Did you see the story about how Obama dined Tuesday evening with a passel of conservative and neocon columnists/pundits including George Will, Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer an...
Jan 14, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel