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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Katrina Vanden Heuvel

The Guardian

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How will the bird flu affect the Trump presidency?

How will the bird flu affect the Trump presidency?
29.01.2025 10

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Biden was a remarkably consequential one-term president

Biden was a remarkably consequential one-term president
20.01.2025 5

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Jimmy Carter was a warrior for peace. We must continue his fight

Jimmy Carter died on Sunday at the age of 100. The former president’s passing followed that of former first lady Rosalynn Carter, to whom he was...

30.12.2024 10

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Trump will destroy the government agencies that most help working people

The Republican party has shellacked its clean-cut corporatism, in recent years, with a veneer of economic populism. See JD Vance’s...

16.12.2024 4

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Elon Musk has cozied into Trump’s White House. How long will this bromance last?

It’s deja vu all over again, again. In the wake of Donald Trump’s decisive re-election, his transition team has moved to pack his cabinet and...

22.11.2024 30

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Americans are desperate for change. Electing Trump was a misguided message

Americans have always griped that politicians are liars and thieves. In returning Donald Trump, a convicted felon and notorious peddler of...

07.11.2024 10

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Weather reporters are crucial to educating the public on the climate crisis

Some have called Hurricanes Helene and Milton an October surprise. Yet such disasters are now dispiritingly predictable. In their wake, pundits...

22.10.2024 10

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Meteorologists could be climate change heroes by relaying its urgency to the public

Some have called Hurricanes Helene and Milton an October surprise. Yet such disasters are now dispiritingly predictable. In their wake, pundits...

22.10.2024 2

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Endorsements from Republicans and CEOs won’t help Kamala Harris win

Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney’s campaign event last week in Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Republican party, was a dramatic component of...

09.10.2024 3

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Abortion measures are on the ballot in 10 states this year. Democrats can win them

If you’re tired of breathlessly following the horserace polling of the presidential and congressional races, you might consider instead...

24.09.2024 3

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

The US should join other nations in giving public schoolkids free breakfast and lunch

Children with stamped wrists. Debt collectors hounding parents. Untouched food thrown away while an adult says: “You have no money.” In a dystopian...

12.09.2024 30

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Democrats can win this election by championing the working class

One of the most compelling speeches at last week’s Democratic national convention wasn’t followed by balloons. Delivered just a few hours before...

28.08.2024 3

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Martin Rowson on Ukraine’s advance into Kursk – cartoon

13.08.2024 10

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Kamala Harris needs to take on Google and other monopolies

“Google is a monopolist.” What has long been asserted by big tech skeptics is now the official position of the US district court for DC. Judge Amit...

13.08.2024 10

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Phone calls from prison are finally being capped at 6 cents a minute. But there’s more to do

You’d be forgiven for falling behind on your federal regulatory news this past month. But amid the chaos of an assassination attempt on the...

31.07.2024 10

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Trump deserves our sympathy. That doesn’t make him an acceptable candidate

I was on the phone with my daughter when emails started streaming through. “Trump has been shot.” She teared up, asking in a fearful and trembling...

14.07.2024 100

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