On Pat Robertson and Divided You Fall from Grace On Pat Robertson and Divided You Fall from Grace
Pat Robertson's God sure has been angry of late, smiting on a scale not seen since Sodom and Gomorrah. First, the Lord collapsed the Twin Towers because of homosexuals, then drown...
Jan 9, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Huge Win for Wal-Mart Workers Sweet Victory: Huge Win for Wal-Mart Workers
Try as it might, no amount of spin from Wal-Mart's multimillion-dollar war room in Bentonville, Arkansas can undo the latest bit of bad news for the world's largest corporation. ...
Jan 6, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Abramoff , The GOP Corruption Machine & What Dems Need to Do Abramoff , The GOP Corruption Machine & What Dems Need to Do
It didn't take Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's guilty plea to three felony counts of conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion to understand that the scale of corruption in...
Jan 4, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Year of Sweet Victories A Year of Sweet Victories
In the dark days after the election of 2004, the mainstream media was touting the making of a permanent rightward shift, and the progressive community was deeply deflated. It was...
Dec 30, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The I-Word is Gaining Ground–UPDATED The I-Word is Gaining Ground–UPDATED
In 1998, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, currently under indictment on corruption charges, proclaimed: "This nation sits at a crossroads. One direction points to the higher road of...
Dec 27, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Why Intelligent Design Is ‘Creationism Relabeled’ Why Intelligent Design Is ‘Creationism Relabeled’
In the history of the ongoing battle between science and faith, Dover, Pennsylvania, has written the latest chapter. Last month, the residents, who usually vote Republican, ouste...
Dec 21, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Spying and Lying Spying and Lying
"This shocking revelation ought to send a chill down the spine of every American." Senator Russell Feingold, December 17, 2005 As reported by the New York Times on Friday, "M...
Dec 18, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Year of Sweet Victories A Year of Sweet Victories
Among the sweetest victories of 2005: Social Security reform has been blocked, pressure to withdraw from Iraq is growing and progressive activists are making progress on local, sta...
Dec 15, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Sam Graham-Felsen
“The War Against Christmas” “The War Against Christmas”
Not since Iraqi WMD has there been a bogus news story more loved by the conservative media than the quote-unquote "War against Christmas." So complete is their martyrdom-like pas...
Dec 14, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Lying, Dirty Tricksters Lying, Dirty Tricksters
"We call our stuff information and the enemy's propaganda," says Col. Jack N. Summe, former commander of the Fourth Psychological Operations Group, in Jeff Gerth's masterful, must...
Dec 12, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel