Big Brother Is Watching Big Brother Is Watching
Amid the swirls of gun smoke from the Republican's circular firing squad in the Foleygate scandal, this little chestnut slipped through the media cracks. The Department of Homelan...
Oct 10, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
In Russia, a Courageous Voice Is Silenced In Russia, a Courageous Voice Is Silenced
Russia and the world have lost a great and courageous journalist. Thekilling of Anna Politkovskaya on October 7 is horrifying and shocking,but not unexpected. As Oleg Panfilov, wh...
Oct 8, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Waterboarding’s Comeback Waterboarding’s Comeback
Did you read Walter Pincus's important article in Thursday's Washington Post? Pincus--whose extraordinary reporting has been a rare beacon of truth and accountability in these las...
Oct 6, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Costs of War (Continued) The Costs of War (Continued)
Last week, Congress authorized another $70 billion for Afghanistan and Iraq in 2007, with additional increases through 2009. According to the National Priorities Project (NPP), $...
Oct 4, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Failure to Protect Failure to Protect
Let's examine last week's five bombshells and look for the pattern: 1) According to Bob Woodward's new book, Condi Rice was warned two months before 9/11 of an impending al-Qaeda...
Oct 2, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Doolittle for Democracy Doolittle for Democracy
On Capitol Hill Thursday, about 60 citizens wearing "Got Paper?" t-shirts attended a packed hearing on H.R. 550, a bill introduced by Representative Rush Holt with 218 bipartisan ...
Sep 30, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rigging the News in Iraq (continued) Rigging the News in Iraq (continued)
You remember the Lincoln Group? The guys the Pentagon paid tens of millions of dollars to pay-off Iraqi media and plant stories favorable to the U.S.? The same guys The New York...
Sep 29, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Suppressing the Vote Suppressing the Vote
With Election Day around the corner, and concerns about another voting debacle of Florida 2000-proportions running high (especially given problems at primaries this year in Maryla...
Sep 28, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Foot-Long Hot Dog in Mouth Disease Foot-Long Hot Dog in Mouth Disease
Even by dysfunctional family reunion standards, last week's UN Summit was a blowout. There were the Presidents of Iran and the United States avoiding each other like estranged cou...
Sep 26, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Devil and Mr. Bush The Devil and Mr. Bush
Love him, hate him, fear him, revere him, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is an elected world leader whose fiery criticisms of US foreign policy can't simply be ignored or ridic...
Sep 25, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel