Democrats, Don’t Be Afraid to Go Big in 2020
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week we cross-post an excerpt from Katrina vanden Heuvel’s column at the WashingtonPost.com. Read the full text of Katrina’s column here.…
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Elizabeth Warren’s Health-Care Plan and Effect on Taxes
The exchange was familiar, because Warren had answered a pair of similar questions in a similar way from CNN’s Jake Tapper at the last Democratic debate, in Detroit.Read: The 2020 U.S. presidential race: A cheat sheetThe word taxes…
Big Business Is Suddenly Showing a Conscience. But Is That Enough?
Demonstrators protest outside Chase in Times Square. (AP Photo / Edouard H.R. Gluck)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week we cross-post an excerpt from Katrina vanden Heuvel’s column at the WashingtonPost.com. Read…
Trump Makes Waves at the G7 Summit: Politics Daily
+ Warren’s apparent appeal to both establishment Democrats and progressives to the left flies in the face of oft-cited “electability” arguments, Moira Donegan argues.The Spy Who Added Me on LinkedIn: Global trade tensions have taken…
Jay Inslee Wants To Talk About More Than Climate Change
“The Republicans would have you believe that if you grow a middle class, it’ll hurt your economy, that if you believe in the power of immigration to be a positive thing in America rather than a negative thing, you’ll have a bad economy,”…
Elizabeth Warren Is Proving Her Doubters Wrong
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren speaks at an organizing event in Las Vegas on February 17, 2019. (AP Photo / John Locher)
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Trump’s Attack on Working People Demands a Bold, Progressive Response
A worker picks up trash on the National Mall near the Capitol building in January, 2019. (Reuters / Jim Young)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week we cross-post an excerpt from Katrina vanden Heuvel’s column at…
In Our Tumultuous Times, History Offers Hope
William vanden Heuvel (center right), alongside other state and NAACP officials, announces the opening of Virginia’s Prince Edward County Free Schools in 1963. (AP / Richmond News Leader)
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Trump Wants to Compare Joe Biden to Hillary Clinton
“Trump’s sweet spot is where he’s running as an indictment against politicians of both parties,” Miller told me. Even though Trump is the incumbent, Miller said, “Biden being in the race allows him to be the change agent, allows him to…
Inside Trump’s Plan to Take Down Biden
For other reasons, Biden remains a tricky general election opponent. Trump might have trouble labeling Biden a socialist given the centrist positions he has staked out—though Biden could be yanked left as the nomination fight unfolds.…