Letters and Politics

Left Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Katrina vanden Heuvel

Guest: Katrina Vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation and a columnist for The Washington Post.  She is the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers.  

She wrote in the Nation the piece The Cuban Missile Crisis Was 60 Years Ago, but It’s Urgently Relevant Today: That pivotal moment proves that de-escalation and diplomacy can prevail.

Photo credit: Katrina vanden Heuvel on Wikimedia

And Antiterrorist Operation in Eastern Ukraine on Flickr