Katrina vandenHeuvel
@KatrinaNation
The Nation's Editorial Director and Publisher
Terrific piece by @ZephyrTeachout | The Solution to $10 Eggs Lies Within New York City Limits - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/07/21/opi…
Mamdani's grocery campaign inspired me to write this. New York City can stop big chain stores and big suppliers from distorting grocery markets. nytimes.com/2025/07/21/opi…
Defiant Stephen Colbert Fires Back At Trump With 3 Blunt Words | HuffPost Entertainment huffpost.com/entry/stephen-…
Not The Onion— Tesla Diner opens in LA-/ x.com/i/trending/194…
The Daily Show is giving another one of its correspondents a shot behind the host’s desk. hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/dai…
Zelensky’s Government Takes Aim at Corruption Fighters ///Ukraine’s president ran on a promise to clean things up, but critics say his government is cracking down on anti-corruption activists, critics and agencies. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/wor…
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Zohran Mamdani’s victory was not just characterized by his success turning out younger voters, but his ability to remain competitive in parts of the city many wrote off for Andrew Cuomo—places like NYCHA campuses. via @patrickspauster: bit.ly/4eWhvMI
28 countries condemned Israel for ‘drip feeding of aid’ in Gaza /In one of largest coordinated denunciations of Israel’s actions in Gaza,they warned civilian suffering had reached “new depths” & that private aid scheme introduced by Israel was “dangerous” on.ft.com/4o23y42
Kabul could become first modern capital in the world to run out of water, NGO warns / cnn.com/2025/07/19/asi…
Jeff Daniels, in an excerpt from the first episode of The Newsroom, in response to the question, “Is America the greatest country in the World”. Never more relevant than today:
Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump’s 2nd term: “We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. We’ve normalized verbal abuse. We’ve normalized bullying. Out the window goes character, integrity. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the…
"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
This near-daily shooting and killing of people who are being starved by the Israeli government is a horrific crime that we must stop. The Washington Post news headline today: "79 Gazans killed waiting for food after Israeli troops open fire, medics say..."…
The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza. Among them are 1 million children. Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
On July 16, the NYC Charter Revision Commission confirmed it will not move forward with a proposal for top-two or “jungle primaries" on NYC’s November 2025 ballot. This is a win for a politics of the people.
WNBA Players Wear "Pay Us What You Owe Us" Shirts at All-Star Game | Teen Vogue teenvogue.com/story/wnba-pla…
Deeply dangerous
She has one of the strongest pro-Palestinian voting records in Congress. It’s fair to debate strategy and disagreement over specific choices--but vandalizing her office and saying @AOC “funds genocide” isn’t just wrong. It’s reckless, dishonest, misleading, and deeply unserious.…
Peter Beinart/ The astonishing scale of killing in Gaza. More deaths than Kishinev, Sharpeville or Bloody Sunday. Every Day. open.substack.com/pub/peterbeina…
Andrew Cuomo really out here doing the Skinner meme Am I out of touch? No, it’s the 18–30-year-old Jewish voters who are wrong This is why he lost
Barnett Rubin/Another Gaza coverup from the NYT open.substack.com/pub/appointedt…