Sweet Victory: Montana Acts Patriotic Sweet Victory: Montana Acts Patriotic
Last week, we highlighted state minimum wage increases in Vermont andNew Jersey. This week, once again, we salute states that refuse tomarch lock-step with the Bush Administration...
Apr 8, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Targets Women’s Sports Bush Targets Women’s Sports
Coming right off of March Madness, the Bush Administration has launched its latest assault on Title IX, the law that ensures equal opportunities for men and women in schools that ...
Apr 8, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Anti-War Pope The Anti-War Pope
Expect to see a lot of George W. Bush over the next day or so, as he attends the funeral of Pope John Paul II. The White House is going out of its way to hype the fact that Bush i...
Apr 7, 2005 / John Nichols
Say No to Bankruptcy Bill Say No to Bankruptcy Bill
As early as Wednesday, your Representative in Congress will vote on a hugely important "Debt Slavery" Bankruptcy Bill (S. 256) that could literally change your life. The bill was ...
Apr 5, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Playstations for Peace Playstations for Peace
These days, kids are multitasking like mad. Two weeks ago, the Washington Post described one high school junior talking on the phone, emailing, IM-ing, listening to Internet radio...
Apr 3, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Pope’s ‘Seismic Shift’ The Pope’s ‘Seismic Shift’
Many of the most devout followers of the most famous of all victims of capital punishment, the Nazarene who was crucified on the Calvary cross, took a long time to recognize that...
Apr 3, 2005 / John Nichols
The Merchant of Baghdad The Merchant of Baghdad
Item 1: Proving that the Republicans have no problem ignoring Biblical strictures against usury, the Congress passed a bankruptcy bill that makes life far more profitable for cred...
Mar 30, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘Wrong Man for the Position’ ‘Wrong Man for the Position’
Adding a powerful establishment voice to the growing campaign against George Bush's appointment of John Bolton to be the next US ambassador to the United Nations, a group of 59 fo...
Mar 29, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Now Bush Is Picking on Kids Now Bush Is Picking on Kids
Think of Ann Veneman as the Paul Wolfowitz of food policy. Just as Wolfowitz used his position as the Bush administration's deputy secretary of defense to spin whacked-out neoco...
Mar 27, 2005 / John Nichols
Sweet Victory: Fairness at Georgetown Sweet Victory: Fairness at Georgetown
After more than a week without food, the twenty-plus members ofGeorgetown's Living Wage Coalition started to have theirdoubts. The students, who began a hunger strike on March 15...
Mar 26, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel