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Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel Even by the lofty standards of the Trump era, the past week in Washington has been chaotic. Just a few days after FBI Director James B. [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel President Donald Trump's 'America First' budget is headlined by its big hike in military spending, which Trump touts as 'one of the largest increases in national [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel Just one full week into Donald Trump's presidency, the dizzying pace of news has left many of us feeling a sense of political vertigo - and [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel Nineteen years ago Tuesday, the Drudge Report introduced the world to Monica Lewinsky and changed journalism forever. Now, at a time when sensationalism and salacious headlines [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For six years, Republicans have voted more than 60 times to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. 'Repeal and replace' was a staple of Donald [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel When much of America was watching Brett M. Kavanaugh's interview on Fox News on Sept. 24, there was another important broadcast being aired: the Maryland gubernatorial [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel In 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,' the character Ron -- channeling his friend Hermione -- says to Harry Potter: 'When in doubt, go to [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel A recent opinion piece written by an unnamed senior official in the Trump administration calls out the obvious and terrifying failings of the president, while assuring [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel Last Tuesday, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum defied the odds and won the Democratic primary for governor in Florida. He had neither the biggest name nor the [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel President Trump is likely to be remembered as running the most corrupt administration in history. But Washington corruption didn't begin two years ago. Pervasive, bipartisan and [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel Edward Snowden is the former National Security Agency contractor who risked his job, his prestige and his freedom to expose the NSA's secret mass surveillance programs [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel Last week, the Justice Department announced that it was directing the Bureau of Prisons to stop using private contractors to run federal prisons, phasing them out [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel Last weekend, as the nation reeled from the violence in Minneapolis, New Orleans and Dallas, the Democratic Platform Committee met in Orlando to debate the party's [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel You know it's a peculiar election year when Mitt Romney and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., can agree that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is a 'fraud.' [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel As the White House announced that President Barack Obama would visit Hiroshima, Japan, next week, it immediately pledged that he would not apologize for the United [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel What once was considered 'pie in the sky' is slowly becoming law. In New York, state legislators just agreed to raise the state minimum wage to [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel As a presidential candidate in 2007, Sen. Barack Obama relished the opportunity to rail against the U.S. foreign policy establishment, which he blamed for leading the [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel Depending on whom you ask, Michael Moore's latest documentary either 'shows off his kinder, gentler side' or shows that he is 'angrier than ever.' Headlines have [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel As the Iowa caucuses near, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., have released TV ads that together echo a popular theme in the mainstream media. [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel In her syndicated newspaper column on Jan. 6, 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, 'America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel This Thursday, Republicans will stage their first presidential debate, with Fox News picking the top 10 of the 17 announced candidates on the basis of their [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel Last week, the Supreme Court upheld a core provision of the Affordable Care Act, quashing Republicans' latest attempt to gut the law through the judicial system. [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel 'My focus is to create a red-state model that allows the Republican ticket to say, 'See, we've got a different way, and it works,' ' Kansas [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel In July 1966, James Baldwin published 'A Report from Occupied Territory,' a despairing essay in the Nation contemplating race relations in American cities. Describing the deep [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel In July 1966, James Baldwin published 'A Report from Occupied Territory,' a despairing essay in The Nation contemplating race relations in Harlem and other American cities. [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel Hillary Clinton's decision to 'go small' by formally announcing her presidential campaign in a video, before heading off for 'intimate' meetings in Iowa, touched off saturation [...]

Byline: Katrina Vanden Heuvel At a moment when everybody in Washington is talking about emails, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, D, wants to talk about Wall Street reform. Indeed, while [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel Don't believe the tripe about the crisis in Europe. With the election of the Syriza Party in Greece, the Greek people have offered Europe hope. This [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel Director Ava DuVernay's 'Selma' is a riveting and powerful depiction of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights struggle. This compelling film reveals the [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel There isn't much room for optimism among progressives these days. The president's avenues to legislative achievement in his final two years are narrow and seem mostly [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel In the early 3rd century B.C., after King Pyrrhus of Epirus again took brutal casualties in defeating the Romans, he told one person who offered congratulations, [...]