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'Katrina vanden Heuvel' (born October 7 1959) is the editor, part-owner, and publisher of the liberal magazine ''The Nation''. She has been the magazine's editor since 1995 and a frequent guest on numerous television programs. Vanden Heuvel is a self described liberal.

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Awards

Katrina vanden Heuvel 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. Vanden Heuvel was also co-editor of 'Vyi i Myi', a Russian-language feminist newsletter.
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. In 2003, she received the New York Civil Liberties Union's Callaway Prize for the Defense of the Right of Privacy. She is also the recipient of The American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee's 2003 "Voices of Peace" award. Vanden Heuvel is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations, and she also 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.

Personal

Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation magazine.
She is also an owner of The Nation, being one of a handful of investors brought together in 1995 by then-Editor Victor Navasky in a for-profit partnership to buy the magazine - then losing $500,000 a year more - from investment banker Arthur Carter. This group of investors included, among others, former Corporation for Public Broadcasting Chairman Alan Sagner, novelist E.L. Doctorow, actor Paul Newman and Peter Norton, computer software creator of Norton Utilities.
Born in 1959, vanden Heuvel studied politics and history at Princeton University, writing her senior thesis on McCarthyism. She graduated ''summa cum laude'' from Princeton in 1981. She worked as a production assistant at ABC Television. According to a Princeton alumni publication, during her Junior year she had already worked "as a Nation intern for nine months after taking the 'Politics and the Press' course taught by Blair Clark, the magazine's editor from 1976 to 1978" and "returned to The Nation in 1984 as assistant editor for foreign affairs."
Her father William vanden Heuvel served between 1953 and 1954 as executive assistant to founder of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William Joseph Donovan during Donovan's tenure as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand. By the early 1960s vanden Heuvel was a special assistant to New York Governor Averill Harriman and then to U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In 1976 Bill vanden Heuvel was chairman of Jimmy Carter's New York primary campaign committee. Following Carter's victory, vanden Heuvel served from 1979 until 1981 as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations with the rank of Ambassador. Today he sits on the board of the United Nations Association-USA and several other organizations.
In 1988 Katrina vanden Heuvel wed New York University history Professor Stephen F. Cohen, an expert on the Soviet Union. They have one daughter, Nicola.
In 1989 vanden Heuvel was promoted to The Nation's editor-at-large position, responsible for its coverage of the USSR. In 1990 she co-founded 'Vyi i Myi' ("You and We"), a quarterly feminist journal linking American and Russian women. She also did reporting for the Moscow News. In 1995, vanden Heuvel was made editor of The Nation. She and Navasky moved aggressively to expand The Nation via radio, the Internet, books and other synergistic opportunities.
Vanden Heuvel's latest book is 'Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right' (co-authored with Nation Contributing Editor Robert L. Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future); it is published by Nation Books.
She and her husband are co-editors of 'Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers' (Norton, 1989) and editor of The Nation: 1865-1990, and the collection 'A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September 11, 2001'.
She is a frequent commentator on American and international politics on MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Boston Globe.
Her weblog (thenation.com) is called "Editor's Cut".

Bibliography

★ ''Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers'' 1990, co-authored with Stephen F. Cohen (ISBN 0-393-30735-2)

★ ''A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy, and September 11, 2001'' 2002, edited by Katrina vanden Heuvel (ISBN 1-56025-400-9)

★ ''Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right'' 2004, edited by Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert Borosage (ISBN 1-56025-583-8)

★ ''Dictionary of Republicanisms: The Indispensable Guide to What They Really Mean When They Say What They Think You Want to Hear'' 2005 (ISBN 1-56025-789-X)

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External links

★ ''The Nation'' Bio

★ Katrina vanden Heuvel's campaign contributions

★ "Tomdispatch Interview: Katrina vanden Heuvel, the Media on Speed", April 20, 2006.

★ vanden Heuvel's blog at the Huffington Post

★ Katrina vanden Heuvel's blog "Editor's Cut" at The Nation magazine