Question Time in Our Democracy Question Time in Our Democracy
"We live in a world that increasingly demands more dialogue than monologue." Those are words from the founding manifesto issued earlier this week by a diverse group of bl...
Feb 5, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
No Defense for This Budget No Defense for This Budget
Deficit hysteria has reached new levels yet where is the attention to anout of control defense budget that is now the largest since World War II? While the Obama Admistration's th...
Feb 2, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
Hopefully everyone had a chance to read what Jeremy Scahill calls the saddest and most moving story he's ever written: his interview with Mohammed Kinani, father of the younge...
Feb 1, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
True Populism True Populism
A very sweet victory in Oregon this week, where voters passed two ballot initiatives to raise taxes on the wealthiest 3 percent of its residents--individuals earning over $125...
Jan 29, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Corporations Ain’t People: Top 10 Responses Corporations Ain’t People: Top 10 Responses
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are people, free to flood campaigns with cash contributions so that the voices of, well--real people--are drowned out, the st...
Jan 26, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
This was a rough week for progressives. But will it be our Waterloo--or a turning point? Here's a piece I did for the Wall Street Journal, "Give Up onPost-Partisanship.&...
Jan 22, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Taking on the Banksters Taking on the Banksters
As I've written previously, The Nation is a community defined by spirited--often fractious--debate. But when it comes to what we'retaking away from the Democratic lo...
Jan 21, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Massachusetts Lesson: Go Populist Now The Massachusetts Lesson: Go Populist Now
Election results rarely have a single explanation. Yet it's pretty clear that Scott Brown's special election win in a state that last sent a Republican to the Senate in 1978 ...
Jan 20, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Progressive for New Orleans A Progressive for New Orleans
The mayoral race in beleaguered New Orleans has a candidate who is a true social justice advocate and progressive--Nation contributor and civil rights advocate ...
Jan 18, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
This is our first "Around the Nation" of 2010 and I'm still playing withthe format. This week I thought I'd try breaking the feature up intoclearer sections. Let me know ...
Jan 15, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel