Messing With Mother Nature Messing With Mother Nature
(This post was updated on August 31, 2005) Like all Americans, I was horrified watching pictures of the destruction wrought by the hurricane. And like others who share the name K...
Aug 30, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Importance of Being Lazy The Importance of Being Lazy
It's a late August midnight, I'm on vacation, a hurricane named Katrina is heading to Florida--and I'm online. Like some 40 percent of Americans, I have spent half of my time this...
Aug 26, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ground Control to Major George Ground Control to Major George
There is something profoundly disturbing about the fact that the Commander in Chief is in better shape than his Army, that he has time to ride his bike around his ranch for hours ...
Aug 23, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
August’s Big Pharma Scandals August’s Big Pharma Scandals
August may be a slow news month, but not for stories about what's wrong with the drug industry. In just one recent week, the New York Times published three articles that exposed w...
Aug 19, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
People’s Petition for a Way Out of Iraq People’s Petition for a Way Out of Iraq
A campaign is being launched this week by a host of groups including Progressive Democrats of America, Peace Action and others to demand an exit strategy from Iraq. A central part...
Aug 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Woolsey Says No to Nukes Sweet Victory: Woolsey Says No to Nukes
This past weekend, thousands of activists gathered at Los Alamos and other prominent nuclear facilities across the country to mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings of J...
Aug 12, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Religion and the Left Religion and the Left
Last month, Rabbi Michael Lerner--the founding editor of Tikkun magazine--convened a Conference on Spiritual Activism in Berkeley. It was there that he launched a new organization...
Aug 9, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: MM at 25 Sweet Victory: MM at 25
In an age in which corporate malfeasance abounds, too much of the mainstream media has been unaccountably lax in covering the abuses of big business. Luckily for us--and unluckily...
Aug 4, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Leave No God Behind Leave No God Behind
Days after Bill Frist, the White House's choice for Senate majority leader, turned his back on religious conservatives to support federal funding for stem cell research, President...
Aug 3, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Anti-Sweet Victory: The Week From Hell Anti-Sweet Victory: The Week From Hell
This was supposed to be a Sweet Victory post. That's the weekly feature Sam Graham-Felsen and I started last fall. In those grim days after the election, we believed that one anti...
Jul 29, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel