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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

Ten good bills await passage that could make a real difference.

Let Justice Roll deserves credit for mobilizing values voters around minimum wage initiatives.

Last week's walkout at the Smithfield Packing Company was a significant victory for labor organizers and exploited undocumented workers at the North Carolina plant.

To repair our broken voting system, declare Election Day a holiday,
establish national election standards and require reliable voting
machines and a paper trail.

The killing of Anna Politkovskaya has rallied her journalistic
colleagues and fellow citizens in a way few other recent events have.

The most effective response to terrorism involves nonmilitary actions in cooperation with the global community and within a framework of domestic and international law.

A movement is growing that aims to build a politics of decency and
sanity, which speaks to the generosity of the American people. It's not going to be easy, but it's time to rock the boat.

Progressive organizations are learning to use ballot propositions to promote bold, innovative policy on the minimum wage, renewable energy, stem cell research and voting reform.

Using the insidious pretense of the "unitary
executive," George W.

Blogs

One candidate’s push to move New York past the new “gilded age.”
Art Pope and his cash are responsible for the state’s recent rise in repressive politics.
Dave Zirin represents a long tradition of reporting from the intersection of basketball, politics and culture.
Interest rates on student loans are set to double on July 1—putting college out of reach for many families. 
Instead of focusing on the mayoral race, why not focus on building a progressive caucus to defend the issues that need to be defended?
New York’s new bike-share program could represent a comeback for bicycles, the impending disappearance of which was prematurely...
The military’s dismal record on sexual assault shows it just isn’t taking the problem seriously.
This isn’t the first time the IRS has been accused of tareting political opponents—and it hasn’t always been right-wing...
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