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
Change Won’t Come Easy Change Won’t Come Easy
Many progressives thought we had taken back America in 2008, but the work has just begun.
Jan 14, 2010 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage
Paradise by the Dashboard Light? Paradise by the Dashboard Light?
When Senator Charles Schumer proposed a federal ban on texting while driving, Ford was proud to be the first carmaker to endorse it.
Jan 12, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Intellectuals and Pop Culture Intellectuals and Pop Culture
I was honored to be a contributor to Dissent's Winter 2010 issue. The venerable journal's editors asked a group of writers and thinkers, including the Nation's valued columnist Kat...
Jan 11, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel