Facing Facts on Torture Facing Facts on Torture
In the February 27 issue of The New Yorker, Jane Mayer reported on the efforts of Alberto Mora, outgoing general counsel for the US Navy, to stop the Pentagon from authorizing the...
Mar 29, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Testing Bubble Bursts The Testing Bubble Bursts
Looks like the $2.3 billion standardized testing industry forgot to devise a much needed self-examination. Two weeks ago, after two students paid fees to have their SATs rescored...
Mar 29, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Don’t We Need a New Political Language? Don’t We Need a New Political Language?
A condensed version of this post, titled Had it With Hitler, was published today by the Washington Post. Here's a modest proposal for improving national political discussion. L...
Mar 27, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Giving Americans a Raise Giving Americans a Raise
This article, originally published in the April 10, 2006 issue of The Nation, was co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 an hour for m...
Mar 23, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Giving Americans a Raise Giving Americans a Raise
The massive number of Americans who support raising the minimum wage should spur Congress to action.
Mar 23, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Sam Graham-Felsen
Independent War Profiteering Commission (Continued) Independent War Profiteering Commission (Continued)
Payments to ghost employees. Contractors overcharging by hundreds of millions of dollars on no-bid contracts. And billions in reconstruction money gone missing. The list of reaso...
Mar 17, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: The Resolutions Roll In Sweet Victory: The Resolutions Roll In
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. No matter how many polls show that the majorityof American citizens (and eventroops) want a speedy withdrawal from Iraq, the stay-the-course cons...
Mar 10, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Needed: A New Direction for US-Russian Relations Needed: A New Direction for US-Russian Relations
This past Sunday, on Meet the Press, would-be-Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards and one-time-Republican presidential candidate Jack Kemp, used the fiftieth anniversar...
Mar 7, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: The States are Sick of Waiting Sweet Victory: The States are Sick of Waiting
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 per hour for over eight and a half years. If Congress fails to pass an increase by December of t...
Mar 3, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Larry Summers Ghosts–Continued Larry Summers Ghosts–Continued
As Russian-watcher and ex-Nation blogger Matt Bivens detailed in this space last week, despite the spate of media coverage being devoted to Larry Summers' resignation as Harvard U...
Feb 27, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel