De Blasio for Mayor—on the WFP Line! De Blasio for Mayor—on the WFP Line!
The Nation strongly urges its readers in New York City to vote de Blasio on the Working Families Party line. It’s a way to send a message that you applaud the progressiv...
Oct 28, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Reefer Madness on Campus and Park Avenue This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Reefer Madness on Campus and Park Avenue
Our endorsement of marijuana legalization comes after decades of questioning the fundamental assumptions of the War on Drugs.
Oct 26, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
One Year After Sandy—Ignoring Climate Change at Our Own Peril One Year After Sandy—Ignoring Climate Change at Our Own Peril
Wendell Berry’s writing and poetry provides a way forward one year after Superstorm Sandy.
Oct 22, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Wendell Berry’s Humanism and Wisdom for Our Times This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Wendell Berry’s Humanism and Wisdom for Our Times
This year's winner of the Roosevelt Institute’s Freedom Medal is as adept detailing the mechanics of a mine-triggered landslide as he is at critiquing the dangerous combi...
Oct 19, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Right Is Still Setting the Terms of the Debate The Right Is Still Setting the Terms of the Debate
The Tea Party may be plummeting in public esteem, but it is taking government down with it.
Oct 15, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Our Nobel Peace Prize–Winning Writers (and One Editor) This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Our Nobel Peace Prize–Winning Writers (and One Editor)
Former staff editor Emily Greene Balch's 1946 Peace Prize win “recognized how much private citizens can contribute to the conditions for international peace.”
Oct 12, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Mitch McConnell’s Moneyocracy Mitch McConnell’s Moneyocracy
McConnell will ask the Supreme Court to scrap campaign contribution limits today in the McCutcheon v. FEC case—if they agree, it will be a massive setback to campaign finance refor...
Oct 8, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eighty Years of Opposition to Universal and Affordable Healthcare This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eighty Years of Opposition to Universal and Affordable Healthcare
Opposition to affordable healthcare has always been backed by untold sums of corporate money and marked by a notably consistent streak of red-baiting rhetoric and doom-saying predi...
Oct 5, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
American Exceptionalism, According to Oliver Stone American Exceptionalism, According to Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States will be rereleased this month on DVD; it tells a different story than the school textbooks we're used to.
Oct 1, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Government Shutdown as Coup d’État This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Government Shutdown as Coup d’État
In a brilliant 1996 essay, political theorist Sheldon Wolin connected austerity economics to a broader Republican philosophy of governance--or lack thereof.
Sep 28, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel