Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Katrina vanden Heuvel (born October 7, 1959) is the editor and, as of November 7, 2005, publisher of The Nation magazine. She has been the magazine's editor since 1995. She is a frequent guest on Hardball with Chris Matthews.
Awards
Katrina vanden Heuvel has received several awards. Her article "Right-to-Lifers Hit Russia" won her the Maggie Awards from Planned Parenthood. She was a recipient of The American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee's 2003 "Voices of Peace" award. In addition to various other awards, vanden Heuvel has also been recognized by the New York Civil Liberties Union, a branch of the much larger American Civil Liberties Union. She is a member of the advisory board of the Roosevelt Institution.Personal
A 1981 summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, vanden Heuvel resides in New York City with her husband, history professor Stephen Cohen and daughter Nika. Her father is diplomat and attorney William vanden Heuvel.She is a rigorously frank advocate of the tradition of American liberalism and may be seen on news commentary programs presenting forceful and fact based arguments countering the opinions of the conservative commentators.
Her grandfather is Jules Stein, founder of the mega-entertainment conglomerate MCA. After his passing in 1981, Vanden Heuvel benefited from trust funds as one of his seven grandchildren.
In criticism of her current commentary against a recent effort in the Senate to abolish the Federal Estate Tax that was enacted in 1916 (three years after the Federal Income Tax) partisan opponents point to her own family background as contradiction of her pro-tax position on the matter. In his book , Peter Schweizer alleges that when Stein died, the year vanden Heuvel graduated from college, his investments were mostly sheltered in annuity trust funds which her grandfather had established with the help of legendary tax attorney John Wright.
One investment of $9 million, was ruled not to be tax exempt, based upon changes to the Estate Tax law made in 1976 to limit the ways in which trusts could be used as tax shelters. When the IRS ruled the investment subject to a $2 million tax, Stein's family challenged the IRS and fought the case all the way to the Supreme Court, but lost.
Bibliography
- Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers 1990, co-authored with Stephen Cohen (ISBN 0393307352)
- A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy, and September 11, 2001 2002, edited by Katrina Vanden Heuvel (ISBN 1560254009)
- Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right 2004, edited by Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage (ISBN 1560255838)
- Dictionary of Republicanisms: The Indispensable Guide to What They Really Mean When They Say What They Think You Want to Hear 2005 (ISBN 156025789X)
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
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