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George W–Hottie Flyboy? George W–Hottie Flyboy?

What is it with neocon women? They'll find any opportunity to bash the upper west side. In last Friday's Wall Street Journal, former Dan Quayle speech-writer and charter member ...

May 12, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Savage Standards? Savage Standards?

I was surprised when the producer from Chris Matthews' MSNBC show Hardball said they wanted me to talk about the controversy surrounding sportswriter Bob Ryan. Maybe I shouldn't ...

May 10, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

I Want My BBC I Want My BBC

LONDON - Frustrated by the failure of US-based broadcast networks to provide a realistic account of the political machinations that led to the Iraq war, millions of Americans tune...

May 8, 2003 / John Nichols

Media Merger Mania Media Merger Mania

On June 2, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on whether to relax the rules for owning American news media. Further relaxing of the rules is the absolute ...

May 8, 2003 / Peter Rothberg

Put Families First All Call Day Put Families First All Call Day

More than 1 million low-income Americans have lost or will soon lose government-subsidized healthcare, recent reports estimate, as states slash funding to contain spiraling defic...

May 7, 2003 / Peter Rothberg

Blair Misses War Bounce Blair Misses War Bounce

GLASGOW -- The red shirts worn by activists with the Scottish Socialist Party featured the phrase "Axis of Evil," a reference to President Bush's identification of nations that we...

May 6, 2003 / John Nichols

Top Gun at Job Destruction Top Gun at Job Destruction

There's no denying that George Bush knows how to stage patriotic spectacles at sea, but the reality back on shore is not so technicolor pretty. Did you know that Top Gun Bush is ...

May 5, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Musicians Against Media Monopoly Musicians Against Media Monopoly

Don't go looking for the compact discs of country singer Toby Keith and jazz player Ellis Marsalis, Jr., in the same section of a music megastore. Don't expect to find a concert v...

May 4, 2003 / John Nichols

Join Operation Strangelove on May 14 Join Operation Strangelove on May 14

Stanley Kubrick's brilliant 1962 black comedy about politics, power and technology is one of the greatest antiwar films ever made. And, now, forty years after it was released, Dr...

May 3, 2003 / Peter Rothberg

Pity David Frum Pity David Frum

Conservative talking head and former Bush speechwriter David Frum was quoted yesterday by Howard Kurtz in his online Washington Post media column criticizing my "amazing breath c...

May 2, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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