Healthcare’s Defining Moment Healthcare’s Defining Moment
Like so many progressives who have fought for a public option plan which privileges the all-American principles of choice and competition, I am both heartbroken and outraged as Joe...
Dec 17, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Investigative Reporting Costs Money Investigative Reporting Costs Money
This morning we sent out our end of year fundraising appeal. You can read the full text here but the gist of it is this: The Nation is facing a significant budget shortfall, at a m...
Dec 16, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Modest Proposal to Save the States A Modest Proposal to Save the States
We all know states are hemorrhaging jobs, gutting services and even facing bankruptcy in some cases. More layoffs loom on the horizon.
Dec 10, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
War and Poverty in Afghanistan War and Poverty in Afghanistan
President Obama has made the wrong decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan--at a cost of $1 million per soldier, or $30 billion a year. What we need is not more war but ...
Dec 7, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
After the Summit Ends After the Summit Ends
It's Jobs Summit Day at the White House, and here's hoping it creates real momentum for a bold jobs bill that the people of this nation desperately need.
Dec 3, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Needed: New National Security Thinking Needed: New National Security Thinking
Tonight President Obama will announce his new Afghanistan policy. By all accounts it will be one of military escalation. This is a tragic moment--both for the nation and his pres...
Dec 1, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around the Nation Around the Nation
Jeremy Scahill's important investigation into how Blackwater is working in Pakistan for the US military's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) made waves all over the world. Fro...
Nov 29, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Filibuster Follies Filibuster Follies
With 35 million people uninsured, and Big Insurance on the verge of receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies through healthcare reform, the idea that a Blanche Lincol...
Nov 25, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around the Nation Around the Nation
In his contribution to Going Rouge: An American Nightmare, The Nation's Washington, D.C. Editor, Chris Hayes, quotes a joke from a friend in publishing: In the future the Internet ...
Nov 22, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan
President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving. Before doing so, he would be wise to consider an alternative which has, until...
Nov 20, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel