Let’s End the Duopoly: Readers Respond Let’s End the Duopoly: Readers Respond
My March 2 weblog, "Let's End the Duopoly," laying out proposals for democratic reforms of our electoral system generated a number of valuable reader letters. Click here to read ...
Mar 16, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
CEOs For Universal Healthcare CEOs For Universal Healthcare
As a recent Washington Post business article reported (an article that should have been on the Post's front page!), manufacturers are quietly embracing the concept of universal ...
Mar 16, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The L-Word The L-Word
Why is it that liberals are so afraid to take their own side in an argument? "Look, labels are so silly in American politics," Senator Kerry replied evasively when asked during...
Mar 16, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Kennedy’s Other Speech Kennedy’s Other Speech
Senator Edward Kennedy gave two magnificent speeches last week, but only one received the attention it deserved. While his blistering attack on the Bush Administration for mani...
Mar 10, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Big Fat Fraud A Big Fat Fraud
Bush's 9/11 campaign commercials are reckless and offensive. Depicting firefighters carrying bodies, draped in American flags, out of the World Trade Center rubble, they triviali...
Mar 9, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Clear Channel vs. the First Amendment Clear Channel vs. the First Amendment
"We must preserve radio as a medium for democracy." Sen. Russ Feingold, on January 30, 2003, before the Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on Media Concentration and Ownership i...
Mar 5, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Let’s End the Two-Party Duopoly Let’s End the Two-Party Duopoly
When Ralph Nader chided what he called the "liberal intelligentsia" for appealing to him not to run in 2004 as "a contemptuous statement against democracy, against freedom, agai...
Mar 3, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cash Cowboys & Other Bush Donors Cash Cowboys & Other Bush Donors
As President George W. Bush prepares to launch his first broadcast ads of the political season next week, it is clear that his well-groomed and well-rewarded donor network is doi...
Feb 24, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Jesse, Jerry and Pat Jesse, Jerry and Pat
You never know who you'll meet in the "green room." Recently,while waiting to be grilled by Chris Matthews on MSNBC I ran into the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who had just come from...
Feb 19, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Barrage of Bush Books Barrage of Bush Books
When White House spokesman Scott McClellan was asked recently about The Price of Loyalty, the best-seller about former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill's disillusionment with the ...
Feb 19, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel