General Clark’s Song List General Clark’s Song List
General Wesley Clark's candidacy is still a work in progress. In his debut debate on September 25th, the Man from NATO said he needed more time to hammer out policies on healthca...
Oct 5, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Investigate White House Deceptions Investigate White House Deceptions
According to a recent report by the EPA's own inspector general, the Bush Administration instructed the agency to give the public misleading information in the days following the...
Oct 5, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Meeting the Dalai Lama Meeting the Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama recently ended a twenty-day trip to the United States that at times resembled a rock tour more than the series of scientific, spiritual and political meetings whic...
Oct 4, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
We’re All Californians Now We’re All Californians Now
"Is California Crazy?" was how The Week magazine billed its political discussion yesterday. Journalists (and gossip columnists, politicos, NYC fixtures and one of California's 13...
Oct 2, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Against Blind Imperial Arrogance Against Blind Imperial Arrogance
Edward Said closed one of his last published essays with the lines: "We are in for many more years of turmoil and misery in the Middle East, where one of the main problems is, to ...
Sep 25, 2003 / John Nichols
Op-Ed or Op-Ad? Op-Ed or Op-Ad?
Has the Washington Post op-ed page gone into the "Op-Ad" business? In early September, the paper published an op-ed piece by Mark Penn, a paid political adviser to Democratic Pre...
Sep 22, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Déjà Vu With Condoleezza Rice Déjà Vu With Condoleezza Rice
One good measure of this Administration's extremism is the steady drumbeat of criticism being leveled against it by leading establishment figures--many not known for being politi...
Sep 22, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What’s He Smoking? What’s He Smoking?
Maybe it's a drug problem? Comedian D.L. Hughley may just be on to something. Take Hughley's recent exchange with neocon Bill Kristol, editor of Rupert Murdoch's Weekly Standard,...
Sep 21, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rumsfeld Should Go! Rumsfeld Should Go!
Having elbowed the State Department aside and demanded full authority for overseeing the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should be held acc...
Sep 20, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Blair Takes a Hit–Bush Next? Blair Takes a Hit–Bush Next?
Forget about the economy. Forget about the environment. Forget about the mess that he has made of US relations with the rest of the world. The issue that is on George W. Bush's m...
Sep 19, 2003 / John Nichols