It’s About the People It’s About the People
When it comes to the media, we hear a lot of talk about a conservative-liberal divide, or the thoroughly discredited idea of aliberal bias. But the divide worth paying attention to...
Oct 6, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Fight for Financial Reform The Fight for Financial Reform
These next few months are a time of reckoning. Every so often in American political history, a window for change opens, and the combination of crisis, leadership, ...
Oct 3, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
A few quick hits before the weekend
Oct 2, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
When an event like the G-20 in Pittsburgh wraps up, there are always two big questions to ask: What decisions inside the convention center will impact policy around the world? And ...
Sep 28, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Compass for Fair Food A Compass for Fair Food
Over the years, The Nation and I have closely tracked the heroic work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) as they have fought to protect agriculture workers in the fields o...
Sep 27, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
I'm off to Russia for a series of interviews looking at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (I'll be sure to ask people what they think of our controversies over so...
Sep 21, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Shifting Debate on Afghanistan A Shifting Debate on Afghanistan
Eight years after the war in Afghanistan began, the issue of how to endit is finally getting some traction in Congress. No longer is Congressman Jim McGovern's bill with over 100 ...
Sep 18, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Metropolis Now Metropolis Now
This article was co-authored by Nation contributing editor Joel Rogers. Itoriginally appeared in the September 17 issue of the New Statesman. On the campaign trail, Barack Oba...
Sep 17, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Working Families Party Builds Progressive Power Working Families Party Builds Progressive Power
The Working Families Party was started in 1998 by a group of labor and community activists whowanted to reinvigorate the fight for economic and social justice in NewYork. The Nat...
Sep 14, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
I mostly avoided coverage of the weekend's 9/12 "teabagger" rally in Washington, DC; we were moving my daughter in to college. But the specter of race--and of conservativ...
Sep 14, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel