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.

How Many Times Do the Neocons Get to Be Wrong Before We Stop Asking Them What to Do in Iraq?

How Many Times Do the Neocons Get to Be Wrong Before We Stop Asking Them What to Do in Iraq? How Many Times Do the Neocons Get to Be Wrong Before We Stop Asking Them What to Do in Iraq?

We’ve been talking to the wrong politicians about Iraq and yet the media continues to solicit them.

Jun 17, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

‘It’s Simply Mission Critical’: Mayor Bill de Blasio on the Revival of an Urban Agenda

‘It’s Simply Mission Critical’: Mayor Bill de Blasio on the Revival of an Urban Agenda ‘It’s Simply Mission Critical’: Mayor Bill de Blasio on the Revival of an Urban Agenda

Katrina vanden Heuvel, Joan Walsh and Zerlina Maxwell sat down with de Blasio to discuss universal pre-K, the Working Families Party convention and the role of mayors.

Jun 10, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Time for Evolution in US Cuba Policy

Time for Evolution in US Cuba Policy Time for Evolution in US Cuba Policy

Why Cuba might deem the United States irrelevant if foreign policy doesn't change.

Jun 10, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Why Seattle’s Minimum-Wage Hike Is Good for Business and the Economy

Why Seattle’s Minimum-Wage Hike Is Good for Business and the Economy Why Seattle’s Minimum-Wage Hike Is Good for Business and the Economy

Should America be looking to Seattle for solutions to its broken economic system?

Jun 9, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Turn the NRA’s Weapon Against It

Turn the NRA’s Weapon Against It Turn the NRA’s Weapon Against It

The right’s long, assiduous and destructive march through the courts and the court of public opinion has, perversely, illuminated a path forward for their opponents.

Jun 3, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Real Benghazi Scandal

The Real Benghazi Scandal The Real Benghazi Scandal

It’s time to start asking why, more than a decade after 9/11, we put ourselves in a position to fail in the first place.

Jun 2, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The End of US Military Misadventurism?

The End of US Military Misadventurism? The End of US Military Misadventurism?

Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel joins the The Diane Rehm Show to assess Obama's vision for America’s role in world affairs.

May 30, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Let’s Stop Subsidizing Economic Inequality

Let’s Stop Subsidizing Economic Inequality Let’s Stop Subsidizing Economic Inequality

Why must you and I foot the bill, via our taxes, for the callousness of Wal-Mart or Domino's?

May 28, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Why Is the VA Suffering From a Lack of Resources in the First Place?

Why Is the VA Suffering From a Lack of Resources in the First Place? Why Is the VA Suffering From a Lack of Resources in the First Place?

Today’s lesson is quite simple: after conflicts are over, we need to fully fund the healthcare and medical needs of our veterans. Forever.

May 21, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Reining in the Surveillance State

Reining in the Surveillance State Reining in the Surveillance State

A host of troubling policies, including the prosecution of record numbers of journalists and whistleblowers, are proliferating unchecked.

May 20, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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