Obama and Edwards Get It on Nukes Obama and Edwards Get It on Nukes
Today, Senator Barack Obama will propose setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world. This proposal should be be celebrated. It is a sign of Obama's commitment ...
Oct 2, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Shifting Targets Shifting Targets
Last week, the Senate -- via the Kyl-Lieberman Senate resolution -- handed the Bush Administration a close-to-blank check for military strikes against Iran. The resolution accuses...
Oct 1, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ending War for Profit Ending War for Profit
Based on the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard public finance lecturer Linda J. Bilmes, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) recently d...
Sep 27, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush, the Bomb and Iran Bush, the Bomb and Iran
To bomb or not to bomb Iran, that's the question the Bush Administration appears to be debating these days, once again revealing the extraordinary disconnect between the White Hou...
Sep 23, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Exciting for Puzzlers Exciting for Puzzlers
From Saturday's New York Times Crossword: 14-across, Weekly since 1865 Somewhere in between... 26-across, ___ Paradise of Kerouac's "On the Road" ..... 53-across, When ...
Sep 23, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dan Rather Won’t Take any “Bullshine” Dan Rather Won’t Take any “Bullshine”
It was riveting television. There was former CBS news anchor Dan Rather, sitting across from CNN's Larry King, railing against the threat powerful media corporations pose to freed...
Sep 21, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
“The Fat Lady Has Not Sung Yet” “The Fat Lady Has Not Sung Yet”
The people of the nation's capital – all 600,000 of them – came closer than ever before to long sought after voting representation in Congress yesterday. But in the end, bipa...
Sep 19, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Scholarships Happen Scholarships Happen
He's back. Having apparently spent sufficient time with his family since being sacked, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is battling to rebuild his disgraced image. In ...
Sep 19, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Scholarships Happen Scholarships Happen
He's back. Having apparently spent sufficient time with his family since being sacked, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is battling to rebuild his disgraced image. In P...
Sep 18, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Pro-Democracy Movement A Pro-Democracy Movement
With the nation's first billion dollar presidential campaign, pay-to-play scandals occurring at breakneck speed (think Jack Abramoff and Norman Hsu), results in elections that are...
Sep 17, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel