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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

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.

A fantasy lineup of progressive advisors to help the next president end war, repair alliances and rebuild the economy.

We should apply FDR's principles of relief, reform and reconstruction to our current financial crisis.

It's time for the US to dissolve its cold war military alliances and develop realistic new policies toward Russia.

Despite the controversies he aroused in the West and in Russia, Solzhenitsyn remains above all else a writer who bore witness to Soviet society's long-censored suffering.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks about politics, sexism, impeachment, Obama, and her own personal VP pick.

Blogs

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The bombing of Hiroshima changed everything; but it may not be too late to change it back.
The Republican Party has shown nothing but disdain for the real needs of actual women.
The current drought in the Southwest bears echoes of the 1930s, when Nation writers and illustrators evoked what it was like to have...
In praise of a reporter who understood that she needed to have access to power in order to question that power.
By giving science deniers a public forum, media outlets implicitly condone their claims as legitimate.
The anti-apartheid leader’s ninety-fifth birthday is an opportunity to honor his legacy; we do that best by remembering him in the...
Congressional Republicans choose to pursue extreme legislation that they know isn’t going to be enacted into law.
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