Katrina vanden Heuvel

Guest Commentary: Trump is pushing the world closer to nuclear peril

November 2, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

At the time, Gorbachev said, "We can be proud to plant this sapling, which someday may grow to be a full tree of peace." Thirty-one years later, President Donald Trump...

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks on stage during the Protecting Working Families Rally to oppose the GOP tax proposal on Dec. 3 in Reading, Pa.

Vanden Heuvel: Democrats have a chance to revive the party. Will they seize it?

December 12, 2017 at 4:57 p.m.

President Donald Trump's unpopularity masks a harsh reality: Across the country, the Democratic Party is in its worst shape since the 1920s.

The Idaho Correctional Center, south of Boise, Idaho, is operated by Corrections Corporation of America. The Justice Department says it抖阴ap phasing out its relationships with private prisons after a recent audit found the private facilities have more safety and security problems than ones run by the government.

vanden Heuvel: On private federal prisons, a victory for independent journalism

August 27, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.

The Justice Department is directing the Bureau of Prisons to stop using private contractors to run federal prisons, phasing them out as contracts expire over the next five years.

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