Lived History | The Nation

Saul helped ignite a political awareness and a passion for history in me.

In his very first Nation dispatch, Graham reported from the territories on Arafat’s plummeting popularity and human rights abuses, as well as his shameful concessions in the Cairo security accords.

For more than three decades, he was perhaps the most prominent establishment voice for the antiwar, human rights and civil rights movements.

Yes, the Venezuelan president could be a strongman. But he leaves behind what might be called the most democratic country in the Western Hemisphere.

No one has been more loving or lucid in his depiction, criticism and celebration of urbanity.