Betsy Reed

Executive Editor

Betsy Reed is the executive editor of The Nation. She and Nation senior editor Richard Kim co-edited the New York Times bestseller Going Rouge: Sarah Palin--An American Nightmare.

She is also the editor of Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina, a collection of the magazine's coverage of the storm and its aftermath published by Nation Books on the hurricane's one-year anniversary, and of the anthology Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror, published by Nation Books in 2003.

The “O” in Socialism The “O” in Socialism

Just recently, things were looking up for socialism. In April, a much-discussed Rasmussen poll reported that only 53 percent of Americans expressed a preference for capitalism. The...

Jun 12, 2009 / Betsy Reed

The Gender-Bending Recession The Gender-Bending Recession

Are men opting in--at home? Maybe, but mostly because they have little choice, and they're not altogether happy about it. That was the gist of a story the other day in the New York...

Apr 25, 2009 / Betsy Reed

GOP to New Orleans: Liberals Did It GOP to New Orleans: Liberals Did It

One of the more deeply twisted--and, one would have hoped, now thoroughly discredited--right-wing storylines of the Bush era is currently enjoying a comeback: all that chaos and su...

Apr 16, 2009 / Betsy Reed

Unemployment: A New Boys Club? Unemployment: A New Boys Club?

The LA Times is calling it the "he-cession." The stark facts show that the economic crisis is hitting men particularly hard: The official male unemployment rate just spik...

Apr 6, 2009 / Betsy Reed

Shamelessly Exploiting Natasha Richardson Shamelessly Exploiting Natasha Richardson

Now this is truly sick. "Canadacare May Have Killed Natasha" says the New York Post, trumpeting an article written by Cory Franklin, first published by the Chicago Tribun...

Mar 26, 2009 / Betsy Reed

A ‘Clean’ CEDAW A ‘Clean’ CEDAW

In the coming months, the Obama Administration and the Senate will have the chance to right a major wrong of the Bush era: the US government's refusal--along with such beacons of w...

Mar 12, 2009 / Betsy Reed

Race to the Bottom Race to the Bottom

How Hillary Clinton's campaign played the race card--and drove a wedge into the feminist movement.

May 1, 2008 / Feature / Betsy Reed

State of the Union State of the Union

For better or worse, there isn't always magic in marriage, but it does involve a certain alchemy.

Jun 18, 2004 / Feature / Richard Kim and Betsy Reed

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