Katrina vanden Heuvel

New York

Columnist covering national politics, progressive politics and movements, and foreign policy Education: Princeton University, BA in Politics Katrina vanden Heuvel writes a weekly column for The Post. She is the editor and publisher of the Nation magazine. She has also edited or co-edited several books, including “The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama” (2011), “Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover” (2009), “Taking Back America — and Taking Down the Radical Right” (2004) and “Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers” (1990). She is a frequent commentator on U.S. and international politics for ABC, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, WNYC and Democracy Now. Her articles have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and the Boston Globe. She has received awards for public service from numerous groups — the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Joseph Callaway Prize for the Defense of the Right to Privacy; the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's Voices of Peace Award; and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Justice in Action Award. In 2010, she received the Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award. In 2013, she received American Rights at Work’s Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award and the Center for Community Change's Champion in Activism Award. In 2015, she received the Progressive Congress Leadership Award on behalf of her work "creating pathways of success on behalf of progressive causes." Vanden Heuvel serves on the boards of the Institute for Policy Studies, the Institute for America's Future, the Correctional Association of New York, the Osborne Society, the Roosevelt Institute, the Nation Institute, the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy and Brave New Films. She is a judge for the Sidney Hillman Foundation's Hillman Prize. Books by Katrina vanden Heuvel:

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Opinion

Get ready for the anti-Sanders media avalanche

Bernie Sanders's political rivals, of course, will target him. The question is whether cable-news contributors and other pundits pile on or act as a reality check.

Feb 25, 2020

Opinion

Down-ballot races are critical to turning Texas blue

Progressive Texans will need to leverage coalitions and grass-roots enthusiasm in November.

Feb 18, 2020

Opinion

Don’t fall for Trump’s lie. Democrats have been very productive.

Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans have blocked almost everything House Democrats have passed.

Feb 11, 2020

Opinion

It’s time to leave Iraq once and for all

The United States needs to accede to the will of the Iraqi people and finally put our wars to rest.

Feb 4, 2020

Opinion

The Doomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight

We're facing two existential dangers simultaneously: nuclear war and climate change.

Jan 28, 2020

Opinion

Warren vs. Sanders jeopardized progressives’ best shot in a generation

"Progressives unite" should be the 2020 motto.

Jan 21, 2020

Opinion

Trump has betrayed his voters

By the president’s accounting, his accomplishments are legion. But the truth tells a different story.

Jan 14, 2020

Opinion

The 2010s were a decade of imperial overreach. Trump is making it worse.

Historically, such an approach does not end well, and there is ample evidence that Trump’s foreign policy is failing nearly everywhere.

Jan 7, 2020

Opinion

The climate movement is gaining momentum in spite of Trump

The administration can't suppress the will of millions of people fighting to save the planet.

Dec 24, 2019

Opinion

Those who ran the Afghanistan war lied. They must be held to account.

Activists often pledge to 'speak truth to power.' The sad reality is that power often knows the truth.

Dec 17, 2019