Condoleezza Rice’s Middle East Photo-Op Condoleezza Rice’s Middle East Photo-Op
The American-sponsored Middle East peace conference (or meeting or get-together) expected to be held in Annapolis , Maryland later this month has more to do with providing Secreta...
Nov 17, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
VideoNation: The Cost of War VideoNation: The Cost of War
Democratic candidates need to make the war a campaign issue, and hammer away at the staggering economic and human costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nov 15, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Debating Downwind in Nevada Debating Downwind in Nevada
Tonight in Las Vegas--a town best known for slots, boxing, andspectacle--the Democratic presidential hopefuls gather for one ofthe final pre-primary debates. The Democratic Par...
Nov 15, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Jonathan Demme on The Other Politician He’d Like to Film Jonathan Demme on The Other Politician He’d Like to Film
Last month, the Washington Post ran an interview with Oscar winning Director Jonathan Demme. The subject: His documentary, "Jimmy Carter Man from Plains." The Nation has long beli...
Nov 13, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Norman Mailer–The Good Father Norman Mailer–The Good Father
My mother and Norman Mailer were longtime friends. So it made sense that Betsy Mailer and I were roommates in our first year of college. On the big moving day, out of NYC to Princ...
Nov 11, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Foreclosure Turmoil Foreclosure Turmoil
The economic grenades are going off. Just pick up today's newspapers. The subprime lending crisis is metastasizing; foreclosures on homes purchased with subprime mortgages are exp...
Nov 8, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘We Need a Nobel Prize in Law’ ‘We Need a Nobel Prize in Law’
It's very moving to watch how Pakistan's courageous lawyers have emerged, for the second time this year, as the vanguard of resistance to the Musharraf government. Angry protest...
Nov 6, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘A Potential Death Sentence’ ‘A Potential Death Sentence’
If the situation in Iraq is improving, as Bush and Cheney insist, why are US diplomats likening forced postings in Iraq to "a potential death sentence"? In a contentious hour-long...
Nov 4, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Waterboarding Justice Waterboarding Justice
Maybe it's to be expected that a Bush Administration nominee for Attorney General refuses to say whether waterboarding--an interrogation tactic that simulates drowing and that has...
Nov 3, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Washing His Hands of Katrina Washing His Hands of Katrina
President Bush wasted no time in using the emergency response to the California wildfires as a means of escaping culpability for his Administration from blame for its lethal non-r...
Nov 2, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel