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Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Progressives across the country joined President Joe Biden in celebrating the passage of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP), hailed by [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. In her new book, 'Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight,' author Julia Sweig describes a brief moment from the 123 hours [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. President Joe Biden's bold $1.9 trillion rescue plan is rightfully lauded. Both liberals and conservatives have suggested that it marks the end [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. For more than 40 years, America's unions have endured body blow after body blow, inflicted by Republicans and abetted by the neglect [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. According to President Joe Biden, the airstrikes he launched against Iran-backed militias in Syria on Feb. 25 were designed to send Iran [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. 'What we urgently need now,' former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev wrote last year, just a month after the covid-19 pandemic ground life [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Donald Trump's relentless campaign to overturn the election he lost culminated in the mob that invaded the Capitol. His abuse of power [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Last year's Black Lives Matter demonstrations - the most widespread protest movement in American history - have resulted in concrete action from [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. President Joe Biden's first 10 days in office featured a blizzard of executive orders. As expected, most reversed various Trump catastrophes: rejoining [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Last Wednesday, when President Joe Biden was sworn into office on the same Capitol steps recently overrun by insurrectionists, the message to [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. At Wednesday's inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden is likely to address the 'four historic crises' he has repeatedly identified as confronting our country: [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Last week exposed both the poison and the promise of America. Not surprisingly, the poison - Wednesday's riot at the Capitol by [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Every year, achieving greater financial security ranks as one of the most popular New Year's resolutions. Given the impact of the coronavirus, [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Few federal agencies see the pain plaguing American families quite like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As the nation's consumer watchdog, the [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. With the electoral college confirming him as the next president, Joe Biden now faces his true test. Will he act swiftly and [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. 'I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking.' So began President Franklin D. [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. As the battle between progressives and centrists over blame for Democrats' down-ballot struggles rages, the race for House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Even in defeat, President Donald Trump's villainies command the spotlight. Speculation is rife over whether the Biden administration or the various state [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. The last time a Democratic presidential nominee won Georgia was in 1992, when only 10 websites existed, Ross Perot was splitting the [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Is the growing progressive wing of the Democratic Party an asset or a liability? Do the largest citizen mobilizations in history - [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Something's happening in Texas. Before today's election, 9.7 million Texans had already voted - 108% of total ballots cast there in the [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. From March through mid-October, as covid-19 spread, the wealth of U.S. billionaires collectively increased some $931 billion - or nearly one-third. The [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. This year more than most election years, progressives are on tenterhooks. The anticipation is twofold: whether Nov. 3 will mark a new [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Largely lost last week amid the spectacle of President Donald Trump turning the White House into a covid-19 hot spot was a [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. It is hard to believe that the first presidential debate was just one week ago. That night, President Donald Trump worked to [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. The new revelations about President Donald Trump's tax returns confirm what we already suspected. Trump might be a lousy businessman, but he [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. When President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden meet on the debate stage next week, many West Coast wildfires will almost [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Twenty years ago, this country faced a drawn-out electoral dilemma - and we were woefully unprepared. The Democratic campaign had no what-if [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Political strategist Karl Rove famously advised attacking an opponent's strength and turning it into a weakness. Joe Biden should take note. Polls [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Speakers at last week's Republican National Convention lauded President Trump as a foe of endless wars. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., praised the [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Every night of this week's virtual Republican convention is featuring President Donald Trump as he labors to convince Americans to reelect him [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. The symbolism and significance of Joe Biden selecting Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., as the first Black woman and first Asian American on [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. The cold war with China is on. In a bellicose speech last month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo resuscitated the rhetoric of [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Joe Biden's choice of running mate will undoubtedly be both important and historic, given Biden's commitment to choose a woman, and the [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. With Joe Biden's polling lead growing, more attention is being paid to what he might do as president. The signals have been [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Our economy cannot function without child care. That simple fact has been brought into stark relief by the recent pandemic, which has [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. When Congress returns to work, progressives in the House and Senate will launch the first round of what will be a central [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. In 1982, the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union had reached a fever pitch. That June, as [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Though the final votes are still being tallied from last week's Democratic primaries, the outcome is already clear: The progressive movement inside [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. The virus has made us go virtual. We bank online, shop for groceries online, spend time with loved ones online, attend schools [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. Across the nation, protesters fill the streets outraged by police brutality and systemic racism. At least 114,000 and counting lie dead from [...]

Byline: Katrina vanden Heuvel For Print Use Only. We are in the midst of a health crisis, an economic crisis and a social crisis - and systemic racism is at [...]