Cowboy Cheers Cowboy Cheers
Flouting the fact that Pat Robertson thinks the "activist" (Republican-sponsored and approved) judiciary is the worst threat America faces, the moralistic majority in the Texas le...
May 23, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Wal-Mart Avarice Wal-Mart Avarice
Kudos to veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer for lambasting the New York Times for its "paean" to Wal-Mart heir Alice Walton, and taking aim at Wal-Mart's "systematic ob...
May 23, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: CPC Gets in Gear Sweet Victory: CPC Gets in Gear
If you don't know much about the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), you should. With 50-plus members, it's the single largest caucus in the House, and according to a study by...
May 19, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Annals of Outrage II Annals of Outrage II
In January, I wrote my first Annals of Outrage weblog about the waste, fraud and abuse that the Bush Administration has perpetrated against the US taxpayer. But so much has happen...
May 17, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Insurgents of Labor, Unite! Insurgents of Labor, Unite!
As I wrote in March, charismatic SEIU leader Andy Stern has been anything but shy about triggering the most far-reaching strategic debate in labor in more than a generation. And w...
May 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Cleaning Up the Cosmetics Industry Sweet Victory: Cleaning Up the Cosmetics Industry
Each day, women and girls use an average of twelve personal careproducts, according to a study by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. "Users of these products might assumethat somebo...
May 13, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ms. Wrong Ms. Wrong
In her latest column, Ann Coulter honors me by announcing me the winner ofthe Lifetime Achievement Award for Most Wrong Predictions. I proudly acceptthis award for in Coulter's t...
May 12, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush’s iPod: Take Three Bush’s iPod: Take Three
Well, he's still deceiving and misleading but we figure Dubya has more time to download now that he has the First Lady out there softening up the press corps for him. What with t...
May 11, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Russia’s First Social Forum Russia’s First Social Forum
Last month, over a thousand trade unionists, human rights activists, students, miners, environmentalists, artists, left thinkers and journalists gathered on a campus in the heart ...
May 9, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Code Pink Sweet Victory: Code Pink
In her Mother's Day Proclamation of 1870, Julia Ward Howe--the woman who is credited with founding the holiday--wrote : "In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask...t...
May 6, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel