Katrina vanden Heuvel

Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editorial director and publisher of the Nation and is president of the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord (ACURA). She writes a weekly column at the Washington Post and is a frequent commentator on U.S. and international politics for Democracy Now, PBS, ABC, MSNBC and CNN. Find her on Twitter @KatrinaNation.

April 17, 2023

Columns/Diplomacy

Corruption in Ukraine: Comparing the Magnitude to the Afghan War

The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in

Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

The CIA is not your friend

“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as

September 20, 2022

Here is How US Secretly Explodes Nord Stream Pipeline to Blam Putin

Corruption/Diplomacy

The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane

Exclusive: US-India Move to Establish Joint Military Base in Trincomalee?

Defence/Diplomacy/News

by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Victoria Nuland, the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs of the United States, has made a second visit

20 Years After Catastrophe in Iraq, the War Apologists Still Dominate U.S. Foreign Policy

April 1, 2023

Columns/Diplomacy

In Warsaw last February, President Joe Biden condemned the lawless Russian invasion of Ukraine: “The idea that over 100,000 forces would invade another country—since World War II, nothing like that has happened.” One month

The Case for Diplomacy in Ukraine

February 24, 2023

Columns/Defence

As 2023 unfolds, we fear that American policy will continue to be characterized by both mission creep and the absence of any sort of diplomatic engagement with Russia. Throughout the course of

A Preface to Biden’s National Security Strategy

September 22, 2022

Columns/Defence

The Biden administration will soon release its National Security Strategy, which is being revised in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The document will no doubt trigger a renewed debate about

Washington Wants a New Cold War—But That’s a Bad Idea

August 16, 2022

China/Russia

As China unleashed live-fire military exercises off the coast of Taiwan, simulating a real “reunification by force” operation in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ceremonial visit to the island last