Katrina vanden Heuvel

5 days ago | thenation.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel

May 11, 2025 Mothers Don’t Need Medals, They Need a Better World For Their ChildrenRepublicans’ pro-motherhood policies are a sham. Democrats have a chance to do better. Edit Ad Policy Children participate in activities at the Head Start classroom in the Carl and Norma Millers Childrens Center on March 13, 2023 in Frederick, Maryland. (Maansi Srivastava / The Washington Post via Getty Images) This article was originally published at The Guardian and is republished here with permission.

2 weeks ago | thenation.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel

Economy / April 28, 2025 Did You Know Consumer Debt Has Reached an All-Time High? And total household debt now exceeds $18 trillion. Ad Policy A restaurant receipt with Doordash printed in Lafayette, California, on March 3, 2021. (Smith Collection / Sipa USA via AP Images) In the US Capitol, an unstoppable force is about to meet an immovable object—respectively, Republicans’ insatiable desire for tax cuts and the nation’s trillion-dollar budget deficit.

3 weeks ago | thenation.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel |Robert Borosage

April 21, 2025 Report From Europe: The Center Does Not HoldFrustration with established parties across Europe has created openings the right has been quick to fill. Can a divided left rally in response?

4 weeks ago | thenation.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel

Hold the powerful to account by supporting The Nation The chaos and cruelty of the Trump administration reaches new lows each week. Trump’s catastrophic “Liberation Day” has wreaked havoc on the world economy and set up yet another constitutional crisis at home. Plainclothes officers continue to abduct university students off the streets. So-called “enemy aliens” are flown abroad to a mega prison against the orders of the courts.

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel

The latest hit Netflix show has surpassed 100m views and cracked the top five of the platform’s all-time biggest English-language series – without CGI monsters, ornate gowns or Jenna Ortega. Instead, Adolescence is a four-episode limited series about a 13-year-old British boy accused of stabbing his female classmate to death. And as the story unfolds, the pernicious influence of cyberbullying and social media radicalization on the main character comes into focus.