Keep FDR on the Dime! Keep FDR on the Dime!
Have you heard about the attempt to replace Franklin Roosevelt with Ronald Reagan on our dime? Some 89 conservative co-sponsors of the "Ronald Reagan Dime Act" say that anger ov...
Jan 2, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
War’s Collateral Damage War’s Collateral Damage
In his year-end news conference, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan lamented that so much of the year had been devoted to Iraq at the expense of other global problems like poverty, ...
Dec 31, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Saving My Mind Saving My Mind
As the New Year approaches, I've started making my list of resolutions. Work for democratic regime change at home. Build a more peaceful and just world. Make it to all of my daug...
Dec 31, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Take-No-Prisoners Congress The Take-No-Prisoners Congress
If you haven't been following the take-no-prisoners approach of the Congressional Republican leadership--r...
Dec 26, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Parallel O’Reilly Factor Parallel O’Reilly Factor
I agreed to go on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News show recently to discuss progressive responses to Bush. I'm always ambivalent about participating in Fox talk shows. As one Nation read...
Dec 25, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Neoconning us Again? Neoconning us Again?
More inside the Beltway spinning at work: Libya's coming clean on WMD is solely the product of Bush's war in Iraq. That's what the Bush Administration wants us to believe. And t...
Dec 22, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Remembering Joe Strummer Remembering Joe Strummer
It will long be the fate of fans of Joe Strummer's brilliant music -- and his equally brilliant politics -- to experience a touch of melancholy as the Christmastide swells. The h...
Dec 22, 2003 / John Nichols
For the Political Gift-Giver For the Political Gift-Giver
Thirteen beautiful women versus one hideous president. Babes Against Bush is taking protest politics in an unlikely direction. A new group from southeastern Michigan, B.A.B. is ...
Dec 21, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Dean Takes on Big Media Dean Takes on Big Media
Howard Dean is making the message of the media reform movement part of his campaign--not just calling for overturning the FCC rules but also calling for breaking up existing med...
Dec 19, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
National Conf. on Organized Resistance National Conf. on Organized Resistance
The seventh annual National Conference on Organized Resistance--"a space for radical discourse"--is happening this January 24 and 25th on the campus of American University in Was...
Dec 18, 2003 / Peter Rothberg