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Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editor of The Nation, America's oldest and largest circulation political weekly. She is a frequent commentator on American politics on CNBC, CNN, and MSNBC. vanden Heuvel also writes frequently about American and Russian politics. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. She is the co-author of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers and editor of the anthologies, The Nation: 1865-1990, The Best of The Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture, and the collection A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September 11, 2001. Most recently, she is co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking Down The Radical Right," a collection of essays from leading progressive thinkers and activists designed to offer positive alternatives to the reactionary policies of the Bush Administration. A co-founder of "You and We," a Russian-American newsletter for women, she is a recipient of Planned Parenthood's Maggie Award for her article, "Right-to-Lifers Hit Russia." The special issue she conceived and edited, "Gorbachev's Soviet Union," was awarded New York University's 1988 Olive Branch Award. She has received awards for public service from numerous groups, including The Liberty Hill Foundation, The Correctional Association and The Association for American-Russian Women. She is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and The Century Association and serves on the board of The Institute for Women's Policy Research, The Institute for Policy Studies, The World Policy Institute, The Correctional Association of New York and The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, and lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.Related Links: thenation.com |
