Katrina vanden Heuvel

Editor and Publisher

@KatrinaNation

Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation, America’s leading source of progressive politics and culture. An expert on international affairs and US politics, she is an award-winning columnist and frequent contributor to The Guardian. Vanden Heuvel is the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers.

Hillary, Obama and Healthcare Hillary, Obama and Healthcare

With Iowa one month away, the almost obsessive horserace coverage is in full swing and, as it has for much of campaign, it shortchanges the substance of the serious and urgent iss...

Dec 3, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Bringing Democracy Home Bringing Democracy Home

We're headed into an election year with Americans in overwhelming numbers looking for a dramatic change in direction. Progressives have already pushed some major issues onto the ...

Dec 1, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A Profile of Immigration A Profile of Immigration

As the lead editorial in The Nation noted last week, the recent maelstrom surrounding Governor Eliot Spitzer's proposal to issue driver licenses to undocumented immigrants reveale...

Nov 29, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A Profile of Immigration A Profile of Immigration

As the lead editorial in The Nation noted last week, the recent maelstrom surrounding Governor Eliot Spitzer's proposal to issue driver licenses to undocumented immigrants revealed...

Nov 26, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Fight for Press Freedom in Putin’s Russia The Fight for Press Freedom in Putin’s Russia

With Russia's parliamentary elections scheduled for December 2and the pro-Kremlin United Russia party expected to win an overwhelmingmajority in the voting, President Vladimir Put...

Nov 26, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Our Not-So-Friendly Skies Our Not-So-Friendly Skies

While there are extraordinarily important issues to reckon with--endingthis catastrophic war and devising a sane national security policy,providing universal health care, and rep...

Nov 21, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Fighting Poverty in CT Fighting Poverty in CT

At 37 years of age, Deborah Glover says she had lived a middle-class life and never knew poverty. That all changed when she had a car accident, and as a single mother with three ...

Nov 19, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Condoleezza Rice’s Middle East Photo-Op Condoleezza Rice’s Middle East Photo-Op

The American-sponsored Middle East peace conference (or meeting or get-together) expected to be held in Annapolis , Maryland later this month has more to do with providing Secreta...

Nov 17, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

VideoNation: The Cost of War VideoNation: The Cost of War

Democratic candidates need to make the war a campaign issue, and hammer away at the staggering economic and human costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Nov 15, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Debating Downwind in Nevada Debating Downwind in Nevada

Tonight in Las Vegas--a town best known for slots, boxing, andspectacle--the Democratic presidential hopefuls gather for one ofthe final pre-primary debates. The Democratic Par...

Nov 15, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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