Katrina vanden Heuvel

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel

The latest hit Netflix show has surpassed 100m views and cracked the top five of the platform’s all-time biggest English-language series – without CGI monsters, ornate gowns or Jenna Ortega. Instead, Adolescence is a four-episode limited series about a 13-year-old British boy accused of stabbing his female classmate to death. And as the story unfolds, the pernicious influence of cyberbullying and social media radicalization on the main character comes into focus.

3 weeks ago | thenation.com | D.D. Guttenplan |Katrina vanden Heuvel |Chris Lehmann

Politics / April 3, 2025 Katrina vanden Heuvel Resumes Editorship of ‘The Nation’D.D. Guttenplan, Nation editor from 2019 to 2025, returns to his reporting roots as special correspondent and host of a new Nation podcast.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel

When Disney announced yet another round of layoffs at ABC News last week, it came on the heels of a year in which almost 15,000 media jobs were lost – and capped off a quarter-century in which we’ve seen thousands of independent publications shut down or merged with larger conglomerates. The upshot is that Americans now find ourselves trapped in an information environment more tightly controlled than ever by a handful of oligarchs.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel

Three days after Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization, a Long Island farm began euthanizing 100,000 ducks due to an outbreak of bird flu. It marked the latest spread of a virus that has also killed more than 100 million chickens and turkeys nationwide. Though fewer than 70 Americans so far, scientists have warned that this strain may be just from achieving the capacity for rapid transmission.

Jan 23, 2025 | thenation.com | Katrina vanden Heuvel

January 23, 2025 The Doomsday Clock Will Move ForwardSo why is the grave threat of nuclear war virtually absent from our politics? Ad Policy With Donald Trump’s inauguration, the lame-duck period has finally ended, but another unnerving countdown is upon us. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will update the Doomsday Clock—a metaphorical device to warn the public about our proximity to self-destruction, especially through the use of nuclear weapons—on January 28.