Reader’s Mailbag: Good News Reader’s Mailbag: Good News
My recent weblog about progressive victories worth celebrating seemed to touch a chord. After asking Nation magazine and website readers to nominate their favorite piece of recen...
Jul 12, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Dems and Iraq The Dems and Iraq
Recently in this space I asked Nation readers to join a grassroots campaign organized by supporters of Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich to let the Democratic Par...
Jul 12, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
My Response to the Platform Committee My Response to the Platform Committee
My Response to the Platform CommitteeBy Tom Hayden Dear Madame Chair and Members, I write as a supporter of Senator John Kerry, a former member of the Democratic Platform Commit...
Jul 7, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tell Them What You Think Tell Them What You Think
With just a few days to go before the Democratic Party's Platform Committee convenes in Miami on July 9th and 10th, supporters of Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinic...
Jul 6, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Good Things in Bad Times Good Things in Bad Times
It can be difficult, in these times, to maintain a sense of hope--as war, corruption, lies and injustices large and small loom all around, and outrage threatens to overwhelm us. ...
Jul 1, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Exposing O’Reilly Exposing O’Reilly
Bill O'Reilly spinning the news? Shocked? Probably not. But if you needed more evidence of how O'Reilly misleads his viewers on a network that (laughingly) bills itself as "fair ...
Jun 30, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Costs of Bush’s War The Costs of Bush’s War
The Bush Administration, in a stealthy move designed to minimize anticipated insurgent attacks, yesterday handed "sovereignty" to Iraq's interim government two days before it had...
Jun 29, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Nader, Cobb and the Greens Nader, Cobb and the Greens
Sanity prevailed at the Green Party Convention this weekend as its members rejected the entreaties of Ralph Nader's running mate Peter Camejo to vote for "no nominee." The Greens...
Jun 27, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tom DeLay’s Amoral Code Tom DeLay’s Amoral Code
Is it any surprise that the publication of Clinton's memoir My Life has revived the vitriolic bleating from those on the right who just can't seem to stop salivating over blue dr...
Jun 23, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Lessons of the NBA Lessons of the NBA
One of the big sports stories of the year was the Detroit Pistons' amazing upset of the formidable LA Lakers in the NBA championship series. Paul Richards, veteran Democratic Pa...
Jun 22, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel