David Brooks–Just Another Joe Lieberman Fan David Brooks–Just Another Joe Lieberman Fan
David Brooks had a laughable column in Sunday's New York Times. "What's happening to Lieberman can only be described as a liberal inquisition," Brooks proclaims. What Brooks ch...
Jul 10, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Nation and NY Times: Bay of Pigs Deja Vu Nation and NY Times: Bay of Pigs Deja Vu
"The assault on a free press ...should be recognized for what it is," wrote New York Times columnist Frank Rich last Sunday. "Another desperate ploy by officials trying to hide t...
Jul 6, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A July Fourth Declaration A July Fourth Declaration
It is clear that the American Constitution is in grave danger. It is time to make the defense of the Constitution a national theme for all candidates in this year's electoral cont...
Jul 2, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Right Pejoratives, Wrong Targets Right Pejoratives, Wrong Targets
Representative Peter King – and now President Bush – are demonizing the New York Times and threatening to prosecute the paper for its story on a secret money monitoring progra...
Jun 27, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rumsfeld Must Go Rumsfeld Must Go
Amid the Generals Revolt against Rumsfeld; union officials representing 200,000 civilian defense workers calling for his resignation; and scores of Democrats as well as a good num...
Jun 26, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Waging War on Emissions Sweet Victory: Waging War on Emissions
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. If trends continue, 2006 may be remembered as the year the world woke up to the global climate crisis. And Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth--which...
Jun 22, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
How Congress Is Shafting the Middle Class How Congress Is Shafting the Middle Class
In 2005, Congress failed the middle class. This is the blunt assessment of the nonpartisan Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI), which today released its third annual sco...
Jun 20, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Peace Race The Peace Race
The peace majority is real. A CBS poll finds that 80 percent of Democrats believe the United States should have stayed out of Iraq, and more than 60 percent want US troops home...
Jun 15, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Peter Beinart and the Beltway Crusaders Peter Beinart and the Beltway Crusaders
As Robert Borosage, co-Director of the Campaign for America'sFuture, argues in The Nation's current issue, "the current rage in center-right Democratic circles is to resuscit...
Jun 12, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Bold Ballot Initiatives Sweet Victory: Bold Ballot Initiatives
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. In the 1990s conservative strategists began to reshape the politicallandscape with an onslaught of ballot initiatives. State by state,Republican...
Jun 9, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel