Lawyers Stepping Up Lawyers Stepping Up
We are lawyers in the United States of America. As such, we have all taken an oath obligating us to defend the Constitution and the rule of law…. We believe the Bush adminis...
Dec 21, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Hoppy’s Black Shirt, Lucy’s Redness, and George’s Magic Hour Hoppy’s Black Shirt, Lucy’s Redness, and George’s Magic Hour
Here's a little holiday quiz–all questions (and answers) drawn from my book, The End of Victory Culture. Think of this as the beginning of a secret cultural history in trivi...
Dec 21, 2007 / TomDispatch
Putin–Time Magazine’s 2007 Person of the Year Putin–Time Magazine’s 2007 Person of the Year
In its selection of Russian President Vladimir Putin as its It's also reassuring to know that Time's editors didn't gethoodwinked by Putin's steely blue ga...
Dec 19, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Life After The Surge Life After The Surge
Is the Department of Veterans Affairs finally turning a corner or is the worst yet to come? From Walter Reed to false diagnoses of personality disorder, a Department that was nev...
Dec 14, 2007 / The Nation
Like Nuclear Waste, the Nuclear Lobby Never Goes Away Like Nuclear Waste, the Nuclear Lobby Never Goes Away
Recently I wrote about the grassroots fight to keep billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for the nuclear industry off of the historic Energy Bill (and also here ). So far, t...
Dec 14, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Some Sanity When It Comes to the “War” on Drugs Some Sanity When It Comes to the “War” on Drugs
In a bold step forward in the campaign to reduce the damage the war on drugs is causing, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously today to make a recent amendment reducing ...
Dec 11, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Who Was in That Torture Chamber? Who Was in That Torture Chamber?
In Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, reporter Siobhan Gorman offered a striking little portrait of Jose A. Rodriguez, who, in 2005, as chief of the CIA's National Clandestine Servic...
Dec 11, 2007 / TomDispatch
Is The New York Times Obsessed with Moscow’s Oligarch-ettes ? Is The New York Times Obsessed with Moscow’s Oligarch-ettes ?
In the last few weeks, the New York Times has devoted at least four articles to extolling the opulence of the"new" Russia --especially the orgy of conspicious consumption...
Dec 10, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Heck of a Job! Bush’s Mortgage Helpline Is Working Now Heck of a Job! Bush’s Mortgage Helpline Is Working Now
Need mortage relief fast? Well, the White House is there for you...no wait, they're not there after all, but now I think they finally are. At a press conference this afternoon an...
Dec 6, 2007 / The Nation