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.

This Week: For Media Democracy This Week: For Media Democracy

Some perspective on the concentration of the press in the power of a few and the dangers of media consolidation.

Apr 6, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Lack of Paid Sick Leave Is Unhealthy for America

The Lack of Paid Sick Leave Is Unhealthy for America The Lack of Paid Sick Leave Is Unhealthy for America

Being able to stay home sick keeps workers and children healthy and businesses profitable.

Apr 3, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Congratulations to Chris Hayes and Katha Pollitt Congratulations to Chris Hayes and Katha Pollitt

This week, Hayes debuts his new MSNBC primetime show and Pollitt is named a finalist for the 2013 National Magazine Awards in "Columns and Commentary."

Apr 2, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

This Week: Deliberating on DOMA and Prop 8 This Week: Deliberating on DOMA and Prop 8

A watershed moment for marriage equality—and Tony Kushner’s moving essay nearly two decades ago: Introducing The Nation Archive!

Mar 30, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A Transpartisan Alliance to End Our Rigged Corporate System

A Transpartisan Alliance to End Our Rigged Corporate System A Transpartisan Alliance to End Our Rigged Corporate System

True conservatives should oppose the immunity from prosecution and tax loopholes that big banks and multinational companies enjoy.

Mar 26, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

This Week: Lessons Learned From the Iraq Invasion This Week: Lessons Learned From the Iraq Invasion

One decade later, one of the most devastating tragedies in recent memory--a look back and plan forward.

Mar 23, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Progressives’ Budget Merits a Closer Look

Progressives’ Budget Merits a Closer Look Progressives’ Budget Merits a Closer Look

While the mainstream media obsesses over Paul Ryan's extremist budget proposal, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has quietly devised an effective plan to create jobs and cut th...

Mar 19, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

This Week: A Tale of Two Budgets This Week: A Tale of Two Budgets

The Ryan budget proposal’s devastating implications and the clear, humane alternative proposed by the CPC.

Mar 16, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

This Week: A Tale of Two Budgets This Week: A Tale of Two Budgets

At look at the Ryan budget proposal's devastating implications and the clear, humane alternative proposed by the CPC.

Mar 16, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Our ‘Government of Laws’ Is Now Above the Law

Our ‘Government of Laws’ Is Now Above the Law Our ‘Government of Laws’ Is Now Above the Law

The US Attorney General has recently stated that drone strikes on Americans are possible and that banks complicit in the financial crisis are too big to prosecute.

Mar 12, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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