Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editorial director and publisher of The Nation, a leading American source of progressive politics and culture, and served as the magazine’s editor from 1995 to 2019. She is a frequent TV news commentator on U.S. and international politics, and she writes a weekly column for The Washington Post.

Vanden Heuvel is a graduate of Princeton University, where she studied politics and history, and has been recognized for her journalism and public service by organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Community Change. She also serves on the boards of the Institute for Policy Studies, the Women’s Media Center, the Correctional Association of New York and the Roosevelt Institute, among others.

As an author, vanden Heuvel’s credits include The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama and Dictionary of Republicanisms: The Indispensable Guide to What They Really Mean When They Say What They Think You Want to Hear. She edited A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy, and September 11, 2001 and Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover.

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