Jonathan Demme on The Other Politician He’d Like to Film Jonathan Demme on The Other Politician He’d Like to Film
Last month, the Washington Post ran an interview with Oscar winning Director Jonathan Demme. The subject: His documentary, "Jimmy Carter Man from Plains." The Nation has long beli...
Nov 13, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Norman Mailer–The Good Father Norman Mailer–The Good Father
My mother and Norman Mailer were longtime friends. So it made sense that Betsy Mailer and I were roommates in our first year of college. On the big moving day, out of NYC to Princ...
Nov 11, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Foreclosure Turmoil Foreclosure Turmoil
The economic grenades are going off. Just pick up today's newspapers. The subprime lending crisis is metastasizing; foreclosures on homes purchased with subprime mortgages are exp...
Nov 8, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘We Need a Nobel Prize in Law’ ‘We Need a Nobel Prize in Law’
It's very moving to watch how Pakistan's courageous lawyers have emerged, for the second time this year, as the vanguard of resistance to the Musharraf government. Angry protest...
Nov 6, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘A Potential Death Sentence’ ‘A Potential Death Sentence’
If the situation in Iraq is improving, as Bush and Cheney insist, why are US diplomats likening forced postings in Iraq to "a potential death sentence"? In a contentious hour-long...
Nov 4, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Waterboarding Justice Waterboarding Justice
Maybe it's to be expected that a Bush Administration nominee for Attorney General refuses to say whether waterboarding--an interrogation tactic that simulates drowing and that has...
Nov 3, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Washing His Hands of Katrina Washing His Hands of Katrina
President Bush wasted no time in using the emergency response to the California wildfires as a means of escaping culpability for his Administration from blame for its lethal non-r...
Nov 2, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
CPSC Not Protecting Children’s Safety CPSC Not Protecting Children’s Safety
Thirteen million toys have been recalled in the last two months due to unsafe levels of lead. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) -- the watchdog agency charged with pro...
Oct 31, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Alaska Warms to The Nation Alaska Warms to The Nation
In this cut from Blue Man/Red State,a documentary on Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, Juneau peace activists give Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel a warm welcome and a help...
Oct 31, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Destabilizing Europe Destabilizing Europe
If you want to know how stupid Bush's decision to push ahead with building a missile defense system in Eastern Europe really is, check out what Vladimir Putin said last week--comp...
Oct 30, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel