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

Early life

Vanden   Hevel was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Jean   Stein, a best-selling author and editor, and William vanden Heuvel, an attorney,   former diplomat, businessman and author. Her maternal grandparents were Music   Corporation of America founder Jules C. Stein and Doris Babbette Jones (originally Jonas). Through her maternal grandmother, vanden Heuvel is a distant   cousin of actor/comedian George Jessel.

Vanden Heuvel graduated from Trinity School in 1977.Vanden Heuvel studied politics   and history at Princeton University, writing her senior thesis   on McCarthyism and serving as editor-in-chief of The Nassau Weekly. She graduated   summa cum laude from Princeton in 1981.

Career

Vanden Heuvel worked as a production assistant at ABC Television. According   to a Princeton alumni publication, during her junior year, she had already worked   “as a The 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”.[citation needed]

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 US$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, creator of the Norton Utilities software.

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 The Nation’s Contributing Editor Robert L. Borosage,   co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future). It is published by Nation   Books.

Vanden Heuvel and her husband, New York University’s Russian Studies Professor   Stephen F. Cohen, 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.

Vanden Heuvel is a frequent commentator on American and international politics   on MSNBC, CNN, PBS, and ABC, as well as a weekly guest pundit on the John   Batchelor Show, heard on WABC New York and KFI Los Angeles. Her articles   have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and   Boston Globe.

Personal life

In 1988, vanden Heuvel married New York University’s Russian Studies Professor   Stephen F. Cohen, an expert on the Soviet Union. They have one daughter Nicola,   born in 1991. The family resides in the Upper West Side section of the Manhattan   borough of New York City

Awards

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.

Vanden Heuvel 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 was 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. 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.