Dictionary of Republicanisms Dictionary of Republicanisms
We did it! With the support of thenation.com's loyal readers, Nation Books has just published The Dictionary of Republicanisms--an attempt to call out and decode the right's well-...
Nov 11, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Maine Voters Deny Discrimination Bill Sweet Victory: Maine Voters Deny Discrimination Bill
It was a Super Tuesday for Democrats. Gubernatorial candidates Jon Corzine (D-NJ) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) trounced their Republican counterparts, and California voters terminated all...
Nov 11, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Election ($$$) Hangover Election ($$$) Hangover
Last night was a grand defeat for George W. Bush--and the shrinking Terminator out in California. Let's celebrate Democrats winning governorships in New Jersey and Virginia--an es...
Nov 9, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ethically Challenged Ethically Challenged
Five years into an Administration of sniggering mendacity, George Bush apparently feels his staff needs a mandatory refresher course on ethics--a response with the too-little too-...
Nov 8, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Wrong Journalistic Decision The Wrong Journalistic Decision
If one needed more reason to criticize the Washington Post's decision to withhold information, at the government's request, about the CIA's network of prisons in Eastern Europe f...
Nov 7, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Wal-Mart Roundup Sweet Victory: Wal-Mart Roundup
It's been a tough year for Wal-Mart, and things are about to get tougher. Last Tuesday, at the world premiere of Robert Greenwald's Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, SEIU chi...
Nov 3, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cronyism and Secrecy at the CPB Cronyism and Secrecy at the CPB
Scroll down for an update from Jeff Chester, one of America's leading media reform experts, re Kenneth Tomlinson's departure from the CPB board. Early last month in this space, I...
Nov 1, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dear Scooter, From Dick Dear Scooter, From Dick
October 28, 2005 MR. I. LEWIS LIBBYc/o MR. JOSEPH A. TATE, ESQ.DECHERT LLP Dear Scooter,
Oct 28, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: United Methodist Church Calls For Withdrawal Sweet Victory: United Methodist Church Calls For Withdrawal
It's one thing when former high-ranking members of your own Administration come out against your war. It's another thing when two-thirds of the country calls the invasion and occu...
Oct 26, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘For God And Country’ ‘For God And Country’
Now that he's published a book about his Guantanamo ordeal, it's time to revisit the story of former Army chaplain James Yee. (I published a column about Yee in 2004 but much has ...
Oct 25, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel