How Audacious Will Obama Choose to Be? How Audacious Will Obama Choose to Be?
Note: A shorter version of this essay appears in today's edition of the Wall Street Journal. President Barack Obama takes office at a time defined by hope and fear in equal measu...
Jan 21, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tone and Challenge in the Obama Era Tone and Challenge in the Obama Era
"Never in our national history has there been so dramatic acoincidence as this simultaneous transfer of power and the complete collapse of a system and of a philosophy." Resonan...
Jan 20, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Van Jones and the Green Revolution Van Jones and the Green Revolution
Van Jones, President of Green for All and a Nation contributor, came to DC on Thursday to talk to the House Select Committee on EnergyIndependence and Global Warming about a Gree...
Jan 16, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Miracle on the Hudson The Miracle on the Hudson
I've hated flying ever since 1978, when the plane I was on was hijacked. Every time there is a plane disaster, as there was Thursday afternoon, I think of the innocent people on...
Jan 16, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Escalation Without a Plan Escalation Without a Plan
Does this sound familiar? "We have no strategic plan. We never had one." That's how a senior US military commander described the war in Afghanistan to Washington Post reporter...
Jan 14, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Will Obama Find Time to Dine with Progressive Thinkers & Writers Will Obama Find Time to Dine with Progressive Thinkers & Writers
Did you see the story about how Obama dined Tuesday evening with a passel of conservative and neocon columnists/pundits including George Will, Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer an...
Jan 14, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama Must Get Afghanistan Right Obama Must Get Afghanistan Right
President-elect Barack Obama not only had the good judgment to opposethe war in Iraq, he argued for the need "to end the mindset that took usinto" that war. So it's troubling tha...
Jan 8, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Trillion Dollar Recovery A Trillion Dollar Recovery
Poverty is on the rise, record numbers of people are relying on food stamps and we've seen no relief for the foreclosure crisis. There are increasing rates of child abuse and dom...
Dec 30, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Airstrikes in Gaza Airstrikes in Gaza
This statement was issued in response to Israel's attack in Gaza by Professor Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories and a lo...
Dec 29, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
In the Trenches and Fighting Slavery In the Trenches and Fighting Slavery
A delegation from the Coalition of ImmokaleeWorkers recently took time during its "Northeast Tour for FairFood" to visit The Nation offices in New York City. It was anhonor to me...
Dec 23, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel