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
Republican Dictionary V Republican Dictionary V
Bankruptcy reform was a handout to the credit card companies, the prescription drug bill was a multibillion-dollar donation to the pharmaceutical industry, the repeal of the death...
May 4, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
WashU Comes Correct WashU Comes Correct
Sweet Victory In the wake of the sweet victory at Georgetown--the result of a remarkable two-week hunger strike--students across the country sprung into a "Week of Action" for wo...
Apr 29, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Open Letter to Howard Dean Open Letter to Howard Dean
"Now that we're there, we're there and we can't get out," Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean told an audience of nearly 1,000 at the Minneapolis Convention Center on ...
Apr 28, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Be Careful What You Pray For Be Careful What You Pray For
I don't claim to be as good at interpreting the apocalyptic signs of Revelations as the Christian right or the entertainment executives at NBC, but there are portents that The Lor...
Apr 27, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘Bad Religion, Bad Politics’ ‘Bad Religion, Bad Politics’
I'm writing this on the eve of "Justice Sunday"--a telecast being promoted by evangelical Christian conservatives who charge that Democrats opposing President Bush's judicial nomi...
Apr 25, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Environmental Victories Sweet Environmental Victories
In many ways, this Earth Day is a particularly somber occasion. After all, in the past year, we've seen repeated environmental debacles--most notably, the decision to open the Arc...
Apr 21, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel