The Rubble The Rubble
As speaker after speaker Monday night invoked the iconic image of President Bush standing amidst the rubble of Ground Zero in the days after 9/11, I had a different image--of the...
Aug 31, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
RNC Has Extreme Makeover RNC Has Extreme Makeover
Remember the incessant media punditry during the Democratic National Convention--particularly pervasive on Fox and CNN--which echoed GOP claims that what viewers were seeing wasn...
Aug 30, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush’s Flip-Flop Bush’s Flip-Flop
Now that the damage has been done to Kerry's campaign by the Swift Boat Veterans, Bush is trying to play the good guy. After the demonstrably false charges against Kerry has made...
Aug 30, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Oil and the Bush ‘Fear Factor’ Oil and the Bush ‘Fear Factor’
Last week, the price of oil futures reached $49.40 a barrel--the highest in 21 years of trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil prices are already up 50 percent this yea...
Aug 25, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Bush Air War The Bush Air War
As is appropriate and necessary, there's currently much attention being focused on the patently false GOP-supported swift boat ad. But, there's more to the nasty air wars ragin...
Aug 23, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
First Day of the RNC First Day of the RNC
When the curtain goes up on the Republicans' Big Show this Monday, there will be gospel and country music performers, elaborate videos and celebrities doing what they can to help...
Aug 23, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dean’s Dozens Dean’s Dozens
If you're a recovering Deaniac who believes that Howard Dean's presidential run inspired legions of young people to get involved in politics, leveraged the internet's power to br...
Aug 18, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Protecting Every Vote Protecting Every Vote
With the stakes so high, this election may well bring a massive surge in voter registration. Sadly, the potential for widespread voter disenfranchisement due to incompetence, fra...
Aug 13, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
7,345 and Counting…Bush Books 7,345 and Counting…Bush Books
A friend in Oregon reports: "I made my biweekly visit to Powell's bookstore in Portland this morning and found more than a dozen new anti-Bush books. The woman at the check-out c...
Aug 10, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
George ‘Hoover’ Bush George ‘Hoover’ Bush
Here's a joke which was circulating among Wall Street traders last Friday: "Fewer jobs were created in the US in the entire month of July than the number of people who will be in...
Aug 9, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel