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
Wisconsin Democrats Vote to Impeach Bush Wisconsin Democrats Vote to Impeach Bush
The other day, I received a letter from Robert Burrows of Whitewater, Wisconsin. I was moved to read his description of why the Democratic Party of Walworth County, Wisconsin voted...
Feb 27, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Costs of War The Costs of War
As we approach the third anniversary of Bush's invasion of Iraq, with domestic spending being gutted, tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans being extended, and the Bush administra...
Feb 27, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ted’s Excellent New Adventure Ted’s Excellent New Adventure
In the New York Times on Friday, Ted Koppel – now a columnist free from the strictures of ABC-Disney – lays it on the line in examining the undeniable role of oil in ou...
Feb 26, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Electoral Reform Movement Marches On Sweet Victory: Electoral Reform Movement Marches On
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. If there's one core cause for progressives to unite around, it just may be the clean elections movement. Until elections are publicly financed, b...
Feb 24, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel