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.

Will Occupy Wall Street’s Spark Reshape Our Politics?

Will Occupy Wall Street’s Spark Reshape Our Politics? Will Occupy Wall Street’s Spark Reshape Our Politics?

Occupy Wall Street is growing, and it’s already changing the center of gravity of our politics.

Oct 11, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

This (Past) Week: Coverage of Occupy Wall Street. PLUS: Anita Hill, Then and Now This (Past) Week: Coverage of Occupy Wall Street. PLUS: Anita Hill, Then and Now

 This week, The Nation's coverage of Occupy Wall Street. Plus, a special tribute to Anita Hill, twenty years later.

Oct 10, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Nurses’ Prescription for Healing Our Economy Nurses’ Prescription for Healing Our Economy

When it comes to a financial transactions tax, European conservatives and American nurses are way ahead of President Obama.

Oct 5, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

This Week: Right-Wing Hypocrisy Revealed, Again. PLUS: Behind the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests This Week: Right-Wing Hypocrisy Revealed, Again. PLUS: Behind the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests

 This week, The Nation reveals private letters from Charles Koch to Friedrich Hayek privatley praising America's social insurance system. Plus, I join NPR's Talk of the Nation...

Sep 30, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Terrible Ten in Congress

Terrible Ten in Congress Terrible Ten in Congress

Do we invest in affordable housing, or a mortgage interest deduction on vacation homes? Congress’s “Terrible Ten” force the poor to sacrifice for breaks for the r...

Sep 27, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

This Week at The Nation: Saving the American Dream. PLUS: No Justice for Troy Davis This Week at The Nation: Saving the American Dream. PLUS: No Justice for Troy Davis

This week, we ask: can a movement save the American Dream? Plus, The Nation’s coverage of the execution of Troy Davis, and Stéphane Hessel brings Time for Outrage to t...

Sep 23, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Can a Movement Save the American Dream?

Can a Movement Save the American Dream? Can a Movement Save the American Dream?

Van Jones of Green For All has joined MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America’s Future and dozens of other progressive organizations to challenge the reign of private interests.

Sep 21, 2011 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage and Katrina vanden Heuvel

Fighting for Real ‘Shared Sacrifice’ Fighting for Real ‘Shared Sacrifice’

FDR’s leadership offers more than nostalgia.

Sep 20, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Fighting Poverty Now

Fighting Poverty Now Fighting Poverty Now

Last week's poverty figures made the media take notice of our historic poverty rate. Here's what we should do about it.

Sep 19, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

This Week: The Food Movement at 40. PLUS: Get ‘Up with Chris Hayes’ This Week: The Food Movement at 40. PLUS: Get ‘Up with Chris Hayes’

This week, The Nation’s special issue takes stock of the food movement at 40. Plus, “ALEC Exposed” wins a Sidney, Chris Hayes’s new show debuts on MSNBC, an...

Sep 16, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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