[Oldeconomybuyer]

Katrina vanden Heuvel
editor

Katrina vanden Heuvel has been editor of The Nation since January 1995 and was acting editor of the magazine in 1994. She joined The Nation in 1984 as assistant editor. She writes frequently about Russian politics and society and for the past 10 years has divided her time between Moscow and New York. She is the co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers (Norton, 1989), and the editor of the magazine's anthology, The Nation: 1865-1990 (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1990).

"Gorbachev's Soviet Union," a special issue of the magazine she conceived and edited, won a 1988 Olive Branch Award. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Vanity Fair. Vanden Heuvel is also co-editor of Vyi i Myi, a Russian-language feminist newsletter.

She is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where she studied politics and history. She lives in New York with her husband Stephen Cohen and their daughter Nicola.

[Politico2]

... But does she know who her Member of Congress is?

[Oschisms]

That's the first time I've seen Shaniqua Vander Heuvel where she doesn't have a sour expression on her face...

[StarFan]

Thanks, and here's a little more than we need to know about Ms. vanden Heuvel:

"My father worked for Jack Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy. As someone who is both pragmatic and visionary, he was--and remains--an enormous influence on my political thinking. Another influence was my godfather, Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU, who gave me a sense of how to effect political change outside the electoral political process--through the media and nonprofit world. My mother was the radical spirit--who made me see the link between culture and politics". Here's a link to hear her opinion on the UN and how The Nation's subsciption rate will prosper "when the government is in the hands of the other side".

[maica]

Stephen Cohen is probably this one:

U.S. And Post-Communist Russia

Summary:
Since the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union we have watched the steady decline of the only other superpower in the world. Stephen Cohen, Professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University, believes that America's arrogant and naive desire to reshape Russia in its' own image is to blame for today's tragedy of Russia. He also accuses American diplomats, consultants, advisers and journalists of committing malpractice in presenting inaccurate accounts of events in Russia to the rest of the world.

Guests on this program:

Professor Stephen Cohen
Professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University

Publications:

"Failed Crusade: America And The Tragedy Of Post-Communist Russia"
Author: Stephen Cohen
published by Norton