“We Can Do Better” “We Can Do Better”
"What does it mean to be poor in America? We can offer no single description of American poverty. But for many, perhaps most, it means homes with peeling paint, inadequate heating...
Sep 20, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Calling John Roberts’s Bluff Calling John Roberts’s Bluff
John Roberts, the President's nominee to become the seventeenth Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, says that the 1973 high court ruling that guaranteed a woman's right to choo...
Sep 19, 2005 / John Nichols
Who’s Really Screwing Up America? Who’s Really Screwing Up America?
If you want to understand how the right debases our political culture, take a peek at Bernard Goldberg's screed 100 People who are Screwing up America (And Al Franken is #37), whi...
Sep 19, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Victory: Bridging the Health Gap Sweet Victory: Bridging the Health Gap
"It is time to come home, America. Time to look within our own borders and within our own souls," Sen. Robert Byrd said Tuesday on the Senate floor. "There are many questions to ...
Sep 16, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Support the St. Patrick’s Day Four Support the St. Patrick’s Day Four
On March 17, 2003, two days before the US invasion of Iraq commenced, four protesters--now known as the "Saint Patrick's Four"--entered a military recruiting center near Ithaca, N...
Sep 16, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Accountability 101 Accountability 101
Horrified by the realization that a great many Americans see him as an uncaring Herbert Hoover, the president who forgot New Orleans attempted with his address to the nation on Th...
Sep 15, 2005 / John Nichols
Ukraine’s Tarnished Orange Revolution Ukraine’s Tarnished Orange Revolution
The Hurricane and its aftermath have, rightly, seized our attention. I find it hard to focus on other news--even the growing violence in Iraq. But there is a world turning and chu...
Sep 14, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Stakes in Roberts’s Nomination The Stakes in Roberts’s Nomination
In the first few days of John G. Roberts, Jr.'s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, most Senators have focused their questions on his views of privacy, precedent and ...
Sep 14, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
“We Can’t Make It Here” “We Can’t Make It Here”
Last spring, in an attempt to make President Bush appear to be more of a regular guy, the White House released a list of the tunes the commander-in-chief was listening to on his i...
Sep 14, 2005 / John Nichols
Sweet Victory: Celebrating ACORN Sweet Victory: Celebrating ACORN
The events of the past two weeks have laid bare America's secret: that poverty abounds in this profoundly unequal nation. As the body count in New Orleans rises, it has become ab...
Sep 13, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel