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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

Compassionate conservativism n. An expensively cultivated
phrase created by a decades-old and well-funded Radical Right program
of Orwellian doublespeak.

Rush Limbaugh would should skip the juvenile hurricane jokes and summon up some genuine empathy for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

In February 1917 bread riots, led by women, many of them elderly, broke out in the center of St. Petersburg.

The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Beslan resulted in unfathomable human suffering.

The prospect of hanging, Dr. Johnson said, concentrates the mind wonderfully. The threat posed by George W.

Third-quarter GDP grew by 8.2 percent, October unemployment dropped to 6 percent, manufacturing orders are soaring, the stock market is up--as are profits, the value of stock options and CEO sala

I know how to work hard but not how to play. Take last summer. On my first night of vacation, I went to bed with David Brock's Blinded By the Right.

Blogs

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The Nation’s coverage of Washington's debt deal, Congress and gun legislation, and remembering those we lost in 2012.
For Americans who understand the importance of a cooperative U.S.-Russia relationship, 2012 was a disturbing year.
A new year's resolution for Washington: make the economy work for working people. 
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Coverage of Newtown, the great Walmart walkout and 2012's most valuable progressives.
The nomination of a secretary of state gives the Senate the opportunity to probe the administration’s foreign policy priorities.