Trick Or… Trick Or…
It's fitting that the last seven days of a presidential campaign fall during Halloween week. Scare tactics are the order for each day. The difference this year is the Republicans ...
Oct 29, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Vote for Kerry on the WFP Line Vote for Kerry on the WFP Line
If you live in the non-swing state of New York, I urge you to vote for John Kerry on the Working Families Party line (Row E). This is the most powerful way for New Yorkers to cas...
Oct 27, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Vote-Pair in 2004 Vote-Pair in 2004
Steve Cobble, political consultant; progressive strategist father to two young women; former political director of the Rainbow Coalition; former McGovern county coordinator in New...
Oct 27, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The November Surprise? The November Surprise?
With eight days to go before election day, it's the "November Surprise" that we need to worry about. Every day brings reports of voter intimidation and suppression in the key batt...
Oct 25, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Who’s His Daddy? Who’s His Daddy?
Bush famously told Bob Woodward that when it came to going to war with Iraq he didn't ask his biological father, who had gone to war with Iraq, for advice. He talked to a Higher F...
Oct 25, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
You Have the Power You Have the Power
I wrote nearly twelve months ago in this space about the importance of building progressive strength in 2004 and beyond. A year later, progressives have hope in the decade ahead, ...
Oct 20, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Scowcroft Blasts W. Scowcroft Blasts W.
Remember how Bush One's National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft used a Wall Street Journal op-ed in the run-up to the Iraq war to warn Bush Two about the perils of an invasion? ...
Oct 19, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Faux-Outrage Faux-Outrage
Have you noticed that when Lynne Cheney thunders about being an "indignant mother" she can't repress a smile? And when husband Dick says he's an "angry father," he's smirking? T...
Oct 17, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Debate III: Return of the Frat Boy Debate III: Return of the Frat Boy
What did we learn about Bush from the last debate? He doesn't believe terrorism can ever be reduced to a "nuisance," which means he believes the War of Terror will be a war witho...
Oct 15, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
DEBATE: Litmus Tests DEBATE: Litmus Tests
Bush's slip in the third debate was about Osama, but his big, calculated lie last night was, as in the second debate, about the Supreme Court. Bush said he wouldn't apply a "litmu...
Oct 14, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel