Katrina vanden Heuvel

1 week ago | thenation.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel

June 19, 2025 New York City Might Elect a Truly Progressive Mayor—Thanks to Ranked-Choice VotingMamdani’s campaign deserves credit for offering a clear, inspiring, progressive message. But ranked-choice voting is also helping to make him competitive.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel

With a week left until New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, one might have thought that the former governor Andrew Cuomo would be measuring the drapes at Gracie Mansion. Real estate developers, corporations like Doordash, a smattering of billionaires and even Billy Joel have shoveled cash into his campaign, with his Super Pac spending more money than any other outside force in the city’s political history.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel

The blush is off the rose, or, rather, the orange. The erstwhile “First Buddy” and born-again fiscal hawk Elon Musk recently said he was “disappointed” by Donald Trump’s spendthrift budget currently under debate in the US Senate. Squeaking through the House of Representatives thanks to the capitulation of several Republican deficit hardliners, this “big, beautiful bill” certainly increases the federal debt bigly – by nearly $4tn over the next decade.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel

For the last several months, the Trump administration’s reckless use of executive power, trade policy, gutting federal agencies and defying court orders has gone largely unchecked. National Democrats have limited means of opposition – so the best hope for accountability will be electoral accountability. This may help explain why last Tuesday’s election results in America’s 41st biggest city generated such outsized excitement from progressives.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel

For the last several months, the Trump administration’s reckless use of executive power, trade policy, gutting federal agencies, and defying court orders has gone largely unchecked. National Democrats have limited means of opposition – so the best hope for accountability will be electoral accountability. This may help explain why last Tuesday’s election results in America’s 41st biggest city generated such outsized excitement from progressives.