What Really Matters What Really Matters
Candidates and the media should focus on the real issues facing this country: ending the war and bringing our troops home.
Feb 22, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Sunshine Caucus The Sunshine Caucus
The Democratic Party's sweep in November was due in no small part to its promise to clean up Washington. For those turned off by the K Street "politics as usual" deforming our dem...
Feb 22, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
“If Iraq Don’t Kill You, Walter Reed Will” “If Iraq Don’t Kill You, Walter Reed Will”
According to the Washington Post, Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the nation's capital has treated one out of every four soldiers injured in Afghanistan and Iraq. Over 700 out...
Feb 20, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
War Drums on Iran War Drums on Iran
To rein in the President's efforts to provoke a confrontation with Iran, Congress can start by nullifying his authority to wage war.
Feb 16, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
No Katrina Hearings? Gotcha, Joe No Katrina Hearings? Gotcha, Joe
Senator Joseph Lieberman, chair of the Senate Homeland Security andGovernmental Affairs Committee, recently did a 180 and said thathe will not hold investigations into the disastr...
Feb 14, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Note to Schumer: What About George Bailey? Note to Schumer: What About George Bailey?
In his new book, Positively American: Winning Back the American Middle Class One Family at a Time, Senator Charles Schumer reveals the imaginary constituents that have long inform...
Feb 12, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Got Vote? (continued) Got Vote? (continued)
Last week the Democratic National Committee, in an effort led by the DNC Voting Rights Institute Chairwoman Donna Brazile, voted unanimously to support legislation that would fina...
Feb 8, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Message to Congress A Message to Congress
It's time for Congress to stop talking and start moving on Iraq.
Feb 7, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Defense Budget Follies (continued) Defense Budget Follies (continued)
With President Bush's latest budget request of $245 billion for the "global war on terror" (and a warning from administration officials that there are more funding requests to com...
Feb 6, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What’s Wrong With This Picture? What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped, What's good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when you reach the top You're on...
Feb 5, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel