Top Gun at Job Destruction Top Gun at Job Destruction
There's no denying that George Bush knows how to stage patriotic spectacles at sea, but the reality back on shore is not so technicolor pretty. Did you know that Top Gun Bush is ...
May 5, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Pity David Frum Pity David Frum
Conservative talking head and former Bush speechwriter David Frum was quoted yesterday by Howard Kurtz in his online Washington Post media column criticizing my "amazing breath c...
May 2, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Kerry & Dean–Where’s the Beef? Kerry & Dean–Where’s the Beef?
About a month ago, George Soros sent me a letter along with a copy of a recent speech he'd delivered offering his views on "America's Role in the World." (I'm sure I was one of t...
May 1, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Unbuilt Monuments Unbuilt Monuments
No monument will improve the lives of tens of millions of people living below the poverty line or repair Russia's ravaged public health system, idle factories, decaying farms, ...
Apr 28, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Emperor Bush Emperor Bush
Is Bush taking lessons from Julius Caesar? Apparently so. When Caesar's short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the founding of the Roman province of Gaul (modern F...
Apr 24, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Democracy Bush-Style? Democracy Bush-Style?
Skip the stories about pro-consul Jay Garner, Bechtel's war profiteering and the Bush Administration's professed commitment to building democracy in Iraq. For a clear-eyed view o...
Apr 22, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Our Evangelist President Our Evangelist President
With America's leading evangelist in the White House, is it any wonder that Christian preacher Franklin Graham and his relief agency, Samaritan's Purse, are "poised and ready" ...
Apr 21, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rather Takes on Rumsfeld Rather Takes on Rumsfeld
When asked by Larry King about Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's charges that the media had exaggerated the lawlessness and looting in Baghdad in the early days of the US oc...
Apr 20, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
No Profits for Profiteers No Profits for Profiteers
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert put it well: "War is a tragedy for some and a boon for others." (Spoils of War, April 10.) "The war against Iraq," Herbert writes, "has becom...
Apr 16, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Apologist for Looting Apologist for Looting
Listen to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld excusing the looting and turmoil which wracked Iraq over the last few days: "Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes...
Apr 15, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel