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
Real Simple Economics Real Simple Economics
Chuck Collins, co-founder of United for a Fair Economy and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, describes the difference between this financial crisis and those of...
Nov 18, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Affectionate Jousting with Michael Tomasky Affectionate Jousting with Michael Tomasky
My good friend Michael Tomasky has a blog over at The Guardian... I consider it what he called it in his subject line--an "affectionate joust." (Mike is an ace former Na...
Nov 17, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around the Nation Around the Nation
The opportunity to sit down and talk with the remarkable American writers (and Nation Editorial Board members) Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner, and Walter Mosley is rare enough one on ...
Nov 15, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel