Partying While Baghdad Burns Partying While Baghdad Burns
While death benefits for troops in Iraq remain at $12,000, George W. Bush is throwing himself a $40 million party to celebrate the first time in his life he out-achieved his fath...
Jan 13, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Real Moral Fight The Real Moral Fight
On January 20, hundreds of Republicans will descend on Washington, DC, wearing furs, boots and Stetsons, and partying like the Hollywood stars (they love to loathe) at festivitie...
Jan 12, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Privatizing the Public Good Privatizing the Public Good
Honest economists will tell you that the financial solvency of Social Security can be guaranteed well into the next century. So why does the President insist on adding private re...
Jan 11, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
An Election Reform Movement An Election Reform Movement
David Cobb, the Green Party presidential candidate who has devoted the past two months to the arduous task of pressing for a full review of the mess that Ohio officials made of th...
Jan 10, 2005 / John Nichols
Rev. Dyson’s Organizing Wisdom Rev. Dyson’s Organizing Wisdom
Reverend David Dyson has been doing God's work for decades. Pastor of the landmark Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Dyson worked with Cesar Chavez an...
Jan 7, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Keep Objecting Keep Objecting
The decision of US Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, to sign on to the objection raised Thursday by US Rep. John Conyers Jr. and other House Democrats to the counting of Ohio's el...
Jan 6, 2005 / John Nichols
Playing Catch-Up With the Evangelicals Playing Catch-Up With the Evangelicals
Playing Catch-Up With the Evangelicals A speech by Rev. David Dyson: December 2, 2004 The evangelical movement so widely reported on after November 2nd is not the monolithic m...
Jan 6, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The State of US Elections The State of US Elections
American elections never play out perfectly. But the dramatic imperfections in the 2004 presidential election in Ohio, as detailed in a new report (see below) circulated by Repres...
Jan 6, 2005 / John Nichols
Lunch With Michael (Moore) Lunch With Michael (Moore)
The man who centrist Dems love to blame for November's defeat (and everything else) held court at a lunch in New York City today. Organized by the inimitable publicist Peggy Sieg...
Jan 5, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Oppose the Gonzales Nomination Oppose the Gonzales Nomination
A few weeks ago in this space, I wrote about the more than two dozen civil rights and human rights groups who had raised what they called 'serious concerns' over President Bush's ...
Jan 5, 2005 / Peter Rothberg