Obama v.Recount, Democracy v. Thugocracy Obama v.Recount, Democracy v. Thugocracy
This Memorial Day Sunday, Barack Obama did what he described as "pinch-hitting" for one of his personal heroes, Senator Edward Kennedy. From many accounts, Obama's commencement ad...
May 26, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Coalition for Immokalee Workers Wins Sweet Victory: Coalition for Immokalee Workers Wins
In March 2005, I started a weekly feature called "Sweet Victories." Theidea was to chronicle progressive victories --electoral wins, protestsand boycotts, the launching of new i...
May 23, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Kennedy–The Senate’s Fighting Liberal Kennedy–The Senate’s Fighting Liberal
"I would not be here as a presidential candidate were it not for some of the battles he fought as a senator. He battled for voting rights and civil rights when I was a child. I st...
May 21, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Jim Webb’s Time to Fight Jim Webb’s Time to Fight
Jim Webb can make the Four Seasons seem like a diner in Owensboro, Kentucky. It's that kind of blue-collar street cred that may be just what it takes to propel the first term Sena...
May 20, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Pentagon, Pimps & Propaganda (continued) Pentagon, Pimps & Propaganda (continued)
A few weeks ago, I posted on New York Times reporter David Barstow's front-page story exposing the Pentagon's propaganda machine. Through rigorous documentation, Barstow reveale...
May 15, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Paraphrase This: How High Did This Scheme Go? Paraphrase This: How High Did This Scheme Go?
Yesterday morning, Burger King's Senior Analyst of Communications, Denise Wilson, sent me an e-mail saying that the company had "terminated two employees who participated in unaut...
May 14, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Invasions of Privacy Invasions of Privacy
Two weeks ago, I asked a Burger King spokeswoman whether the company had hired a private investigative firm to infiltrate the non-violent Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA) or Coal...
May 11, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Newt Gingrich to GOP–Wake Up or Perish Newt Gingrich to GOP–Wake Up or Perish
In early 2007, The Nation published an extraordinary speech by Bill Moyers. In "A New Story for America," America's media conscience wrote of how "voters have provided a a respit...
May 8, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Young Voters Hold the Key Young Voters Hold the Key
With an unprecedented number of youth voters participating in the Democratic primary this season, Anna MartÃnez--the Democratic National Committee's Deputy Political Director for...
May 7, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Faith-Based Missile Defense Faith-Based Missile Defense
In an oversight hearing on the US missile defense program last month, Philip Coyle III, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Director of Operational Test and Evaluation in...
May 2, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel