Bush Targets Women’s Sports Bush Targets Women’s Sports
Coming right off of March Madness, the Bush Administration has launched its latest assault on Title IX, the law that ensures equal opportunities for men and women in schools that ...
Apr 8, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Playstations for Peace Playstations for Peace
These days, kids are multitasking like mad. Two weeks ago, the Washington Post described one high school junior talking on the phone, emailing, IM-ing, listening to Internet radio...
Apr 3, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Merchant of Baghdad The Merchant of Baghdad
Item 1: Proving that the Republicans have no problem ignoring Biblical strictures against usury, the Congress passed a bankruptcy bill that makes life far more profitable for cred...
Mar 30, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Fairness at Georgetown Sweet Victory: Fairness at Georgetown
After more than a week without food, the twenty-plus members ofGeorgetown's Living Wage Coalition started to have theirdoubts. The students, who began a hunger strike on March 15...
Mar 26, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
States Support the Underdogs States Support the Underdogs
What a month for the Green Mountain State. on March 18th, the VermontCatamounts stunned heavily favored Syracuse for their first NCAAtournament win in the team's 100-year history....
Mar 25, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cultural Barbarism Cultural Barbarism
The sterile term "collateral damage" justifiably brings to mind the human tragedy of war. But the devastating and wanton damage inflicted on the ancient city of Babylon by US-led ...
Mar 23, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Congress on Steroids Congress on Steroids
When appearing before the House Government Reform Committee last week, Mark McGwire didn't want to talk about his past. It was an appropriate place to develop historical amnesia. ...
Mar 22, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory:Taking Back the Campuses Sweet Victory:Taking Back the Campuses
For all the talk of left-wing bias in academia, little notice has been given to the right's growing influence on America's college campuses. As part of the conservative message ma...
Mar 18, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Andy Stern Speaks His Mind Andy Stern Speaks His Mind
"Andy Stern is not shy about speaking his mind," veteran labor reporter David Moberg wrote in our recent cover story, Can't Workers of the Word Unite? In these last months, Stern ...
Mar 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Talking with Andy Stern Talking with Andy Stern
Excerpt from DMI "Marketplace of Ideas" Series with SEIU President Andy Stern. March 14, 2005. New York City, New York. Hon. Carl McCall: President Stern I have a practical quest...
Mar 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel