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American writer, editor, publisher, activist

Katrina vanden Heuvel ('/v//æ//n//d//ən//h//uː//v//əl/; born October 7, 1959) is an American editor and publisher. She is the publisher, part owner, and former editor of the progressive magazine The Nation. She was the magazine's editor from 1995 to 2019, when she was succeeded by D. D. Guttenplan. She has frequently appeared as a commentator on political television programs. Vanden Heuvel is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a US nonprofit think tank. She is a recipient of the Norman Mailer Prize.

Katrina vanden Heuvel was born in New York City, the daughter of Jean Stein, an heiress, best selling author, and editor of the literary journal Grand Street, and William vanden Heuvel, an attorney, former US ambassador, member of John F. Kennedy's administration, businessman, and author. Her mother was from a Jewish family and her father was of Dutch and Belgian ancestry. Vanden Heuvel graduated from the Trinity School in 1977. She graduated summa cum laude with an A. B. in politics from Princeton University in 1981 after completing a senior thesis titled "American Victims: A Study of the Anti Communist Crusade." While at Princeton, she served as an editor and eventually as editor in chief of the Nassau Weekly, a school publication, and had an internship at National Lampoon magazine in 1978. In a 2005 interview with Theodore Hamm in The Brooklyn Rail, vanden Heuvel describes the contents of The Nation and its larger role in news media:"Ideas, policy, activism, reporting, investigative reporting, as well as cultural pieces, reviews, writing. I hope people understand that about a third of this magazine, every week, is a very well edited, fascinating, cultural section, featuring reviews to people's of the big books as well as some of the under appreciated, under the radar, independent books and films and art. But the main part of The Nation is to put on the agenda the ideas and views and news that might not otherwise be there, to comment—from our perspective—on the news of the week—and to provide strategies and some measure of hope in these times." In April 2019, vanden Heuvel announced that she would step down on June 15, 2019, with D. D. Guttenplan taking her place.