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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

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.

In celebration of Earth Day, The Nation salutes those who took part in the top five environmental victories of the year.

The Democratic Party needs to reset its moral compass and close the
gap between workers' pay and CEO salary by raising the minimum wage.

The massive number of Americans who support raising the minimum wage
should spur Congress to action.

Among the sweetest victories of 2005: Social Security reform has been blocked, pressure to withdraw from Iraq is growing and progressive activists are making progress on local, state and national issues.

Blogs

Newsweek is out of print and other magazines have drastically cut back, but titles like Mother Jones, The Nation and...
As the Republican party comes to terms with its own obsolescence, the forward-thinking coalition that elected Barack Obama must tackle...
From climate change to election reform, find out how progressives can work towards change over the next four years.
Cecilia Tkaczyk’s underdog victory on a campaign finance reform platform should stir up the struggle against money in politics—...
A new cold war, remembering Aaron Swartz, and the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade
With the right continuing to clamor against gun control, we should remember their greatest recent PR victory—keeping the ATF from...
Obama’s cabinet; avoiding a climate-change apocalypse; and The Nation welcomes three new bloggers.
With the public approval of the NRA falling, Biden and Obama must push forward on gun control now.