Live: 'The Nation' editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel at Syracuse University

Since 1995 Katrina vanden Heuvel has been focused on political and social movement as editor of The Nation magazine. As of 2005, she was also publisher and part owner of the magazine. Vanden Heuvel writes a blog for thenation.com called, “Editor’s Cut,” where she reflects on politics and current affairs in the news. She has received many awards for public service such as the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Callaway Prize for the Defense of the Right of Privacy, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s 2003 “Voices of Peace” award and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s 2006 “Justice in Action” award. Vanden Heuvel is a weekly columnist for the Washington Post and often provides political commentary to major networks such as MSNBC, CNN, ABC, PBS, and public radio. She is also co-editor of “Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover” (2009) and “Taking Back America–And Taking Down the Radical Right.

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