This is What Democracy Looks Like? This is What Democracy Looks Like?
Scroll down to read a letter of response from Steve Paulus, General Manager of NY1. "Celebrity is no substitute for an honest and vigorous debate on a matter as fundamentally imp...
Aug 16, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
California Dreamin’ California Dreamin’
What will happen to me if I get sick or injured and can't pay my bills? On the domestic front, that's a key question on voters' minds as the November elections approach. A poll...
Aug 16, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Making a Difference in Connecticut Making a Difference in Connecticut
Primary elections are not usually very exciting. A few political insiders pay close attention, a few party activists go to the polls and the news media give them a day's worth of ...
Aug 14, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Time to Rumble Time to Rumble
According to the Washington Post, British Petroleum was told by employees that the company was not sufficiently monitoring and repairing its Alaskan Prudhoe Bay pipeline in Februa...
Aug 11, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Other Lamont The Other Lamont
The Nation's been going since 1865. But, if it hadn't been for Hammond Lamont, great-great uncle ofConnecticut Democratic senatorial hopeful Ned Lamont, we might be telling adiff...
Aug 7, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sticky Situations with Tony Blair Sticky Situations with Tony Blair
Reports are that Rupert Murdoch plans to offer Tony Blair a prominent position in his media empire when Bush's poodle steps down as prime minister or Gordon Brown finally stages a...
Aug 2, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Political Blackmail Political Blackmail
"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people…." Thus spok...
Jul 31, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
101 People Who Are Really Screwing America 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America
For everyone who has been waiting for the response to Bernard Goldberg's awful 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, Nationbooks has the answer--101 People Who Are Really Screwi...
Jul 26, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Madness of King George The Madness of King George
Today, a bipartisan American Bar Association task force released its report challenging George Bush's flagrant misuse of signing statements to circumvent the constitutional separa...
Jul 25, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A New Openness A New Openness
"It has to be said: there has been nothing in our time like the Bush Administration's obsession with secrecy….It's an old story: the greater the secrecy, the deeper the corrupti...
Jul 24, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel