High Time for a Robin Hood Tax High Time for a Robin Hood Tax
A properly implented FTT can benefit the economy from top to bottom.
Feb 19, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Comcast/Time Warner Merger Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test The Comcast/Time Warner Merger Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test
The merger doesn’t just impact the marketplace of cable; it threatens the marketplace of ideas.
Feb 18, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Want to Know What NAFTA Teaches Us About the TPP Fight? This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Want to Know What NAFTA Teaches Us About the TPP Fight?
It was clear then, as it is now, that "free-trade" agreements are disasters for workers and the environment.
Feb 15, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
For Pussy Riot Members, No More Taking Freedom for Granted For Pussy Riot Members, No More Taking Freedom for Granted
They are using their fame, however sudden and unexpected, to champion prison reform in Russia, the United States and around the world.
Feb 11, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Long Battle for Progressive, Humane Immigration Reform This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Long Battle for Progressive, Humane Immigration Reform
It’s worth recalling that on the issue of immigration, as on much else, there is little new under the sun.
Feb 8, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tom Perkins and the Guilt of the Gilded Tom Perkins and the Guilt of the Gilded
Perkins’s ignorant comments reflect a spreading disquiet among the super-rich that populist attitudes may be getting out of control.
Feb 4, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The ‘Dreadfully Increasing Slaughter’ of NYC Pedestrians, 100 Years Ago This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The ‘Dreadfully Increasing Slaughter’ of NYC Pedestrians, 100 Years Ago
In February 1914, an editorial warned against allowing a small, privileged driving minority to jeopardize the lives of everyone else.
Feb 1, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Promise of Transpartisanship The Promise of Transpartisanship
A reactionary shift toward bipartisanship—toward an anodyne centrism—isn’t the solution.
Jan 28, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Celebrating Pete Seeger Celebrating Pete Seeger
For his 90th birthday, a rollicking celebration at Madison Square Garden paid tribute to the extraordinary activist musician.
Jan 28, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: ‘Dr. Strangelove’ as ‘a Cold Blade of Scorn Against the Spectator’s Throat’ This Week in ‘Nation’ History: ‘Dr. Strangelove’ as ‘a Cold Blade of Scorn Against the Spectator’s Throat’
Robert Hatch’s conflicted review of Stanley Kubrick’s great satire, released fifty years ago this week.
Jan 25, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel