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Katrina vanden Heuvel

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Katrina vanden Heuvel

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Editor and Publisher

Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editor and Publisher of The Nation.

She is a frequent commentator on American and international politics on ABC, MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Foreign Policy magazine and The Boston Globe.

She writes a weekly web column for The Washington Post. Her blog "Editor's Cut" appears at thenation.com.

She is the author of The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama (Nation Books, 2011). She is also the editor of Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover and co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking Down The Radical Right.

Articles

News and Features

Building a new political order will take more than one election.

A wide-ranging Nation interview with the former Soviet president.

Happy days are here again--if you're Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.

The president's healthcare speech was not a full-fledged antidote to decades of Reaganism. But it was an eloquent call for a new progressive role for government. We must build on it.

An experienced prosecutor who knows that prevention is the best crime-fighting strategy, Aborn has fought for drug-law reform and sensible gun-control.

An experienced prosecutor who knows that prevention is the best crime-fighting strategy, Aborn has fought for drug-law reform and sensible gun-control.

Obama's signature economic reforms are under siege. Without a grassroots challenge to business as usual, we won't get the change we were promised, much less the change we need.

North Korea's rocket launch has set the hawks circling, threatening Obama's non-proliferation agenda before it's off the ground. Chuck Hagel is pushing back.

Obama's escalation threatens to make Bush's war his own. There's still time to change direction.

Progressives need to be as clear-eyed, tough and pragmatic about Obama as he is about us.

Blogs

Some perspective on the concentration of the press in the power of a few and the dangers of media consolidation.
Being able to stay home sick keeps workers and children healthy and businesses profitable.
This week, Hayes debuts his new MSNBC primetime show and Pollitt is named a finalist for the 2013 National Magazine Awards in "Columns...
A watershed moment for marriage equality—and Tony Kushner’s moving essay nearly two decades ago: Introducing The Nation Archive!
True conservatives should oppose the immunity from prosecution and tax loopholes that big banks and multinational companies enjoy.
One decade later, one of the most devastating tragedies in recent memory--a look back and plan forward.
The Ryan budget proposal’s devastating implications and the clear, humane alternative proposed by the CPC.