DC Voting Rights Tour: First Stop, New Hampshire DC Voting Rights Tour: First Stop, New Hampshire
In September, a House-approved bill granting 600,000 citizens in the District of Columbia a voting representative in Congress for the first time, fell just 3 votes shy of overcomi...
Jan 8, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Tyranny of Super-Delegates The Tyranny of Super-Delegates
Barack Obama's stirring victory in Iowa was also a good night for our democracy. The turnout broke records and young people – who were mobilized and organized – participated i...
Jan 4, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Time for (Donna) Edwards to Win Time for (Donna) Edwards to Win
In this next month, it's understandable that attention will be paid 36/7 to what happens in Iowa, New Hampshire, and other early presidential primaries. But progressive democrats ...
Jan 2, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Looking Forward, Looking Back Looking Forward, Looking Back
At the end of each year, I write to our 30,000 Nation Associates--readers who make contributions to the magazine that provide nearly 20 percent of all the magazine's revenue--repo...
Dec 26, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Lawyers Stepping Up Lawyers Stepping Up
We are lawyers in the United States of America. As such, we have all taken an oath obligating us to defend the Constitution and the rule of law…. We believe the Bush adminis...
Dec 21, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Women’s Voices, Women Vote Women’s Voices, Women Vote
In 2004, 20 million unmarried women – single, divorced, separated or widowed – didn't vote. In 2006, that number was 30 million. Depressing? Yes. But in 2008, these women are ...
Dec 20, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Putin–Time Magazine’s 2007 Person of the Year Putin–Time Magazine’s 2007 Person of the Year
In its selection of Russian President Vladimir Putin as its It's also reassuring to know that Time's editors didn't gethoodwinked by Putin's steely blue ga...
Dec 19, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
New Jersey Leads on Capital Punishment New Jersey Leads on Capital Punishment
Today Governor Jon Corzine signed into law a bill that ends capital punishment in New Jersey. "This is a day of progress for us and for the millions of people across our nation an...
Dec 18, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
No Taxes for War No Taxes for War
More and more Americans are fed up with watching their tax dollars support the greatest foreign policy disaster of our time. Over the past year, millions of US citizens have voted...
Dec 16, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Like Nuclear Waste, the Nuclear Lobby Never Goes Away Like Nuclear Waste, the Nuclear Lobby Never Goes Away
Recently I wrote about the grassroots fight to keep billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for the nuclear industry off of the historic Energy Bill (and also here ). So far, t...
Dec 14, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel