The House is on Fire The House is on Fire
It is now clear: our economy is shrinking, unemployment and underemployment are on the rise at nearly 20 percent, and a tsunami of foreclosures continues unabated--what we have on ...
Oct 13, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Burden & The Nobel The Burden & The Nobel
The choice has always been, as a former chair of the Nobel Peace Prize judging committee explained in 2001, " a political act." This year it was also an ingenious leap of...
Oct 11, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
Last Spring, Sebastian Jones was fact-checking in The Nation's modest Capitol Hill office as our DC intern, keeping track of the excitement (and corruption) in Congress. Like a sea...
Oct 11, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
It’s About the People It’s About the People
When it comes to the media, we hear a lot of talk about a conservative-liberal divide, or the thoroughly discredited idea of aliberal bias. But the divide worth paying attention to...
Oct 6, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Fight for Financial Reform The Fight for Financial Reform
These next few months are a time of reckoning. Every so often in American political history, a window for change opens, and the combination of crisis, leadership, ...
Oct 3, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
A few quick hits before the weekend
Oct 2, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
When an event like the G-20 in Pittsburgh wraps up, there are always two big questions to ask: What decisions inside the convention center will impact policy around the world? And ...
Sep 28, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Compass for Fair Food A Compass for Fair Food
Over the years, The Nation and I have closely tracked the heroic work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) as they have fought to protect agriculture workers in the fields o...
Sep 27, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
I'm off to Russia for a series of interviews looking at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (I'll be sure to ask people what they think of our controversies over so...
Sep 21, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Shifting Debate on Afghanistan A Shifting Debate on Afghanistan
Eight years after the war in Afghanistan began, the issue of how to endit is finally getting some traction in Congress. No longer is Congressman Jim McGovern's bill with over 100 ...
Sep 18, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel