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Everything I Need to Know About the Legislative Process I Learned at a Tea Party Rally (Humor)

Calvin Trillin

In the Tank (Books & Arts, Science, Health)

Is sensory deprivation an escape from or toward the fatigue and distractions of the digital life?

Neima Jahromi

Time to Empty the Pool (Books & Arts, Poems)

Daniel Bouchard

Imagine: On J.M Coetzee (Books & Arts, Fiction)

The Childhood of Jesus explores the fictitious dimensions of a just and compassionate world.

Laila Lalami

They Didn’t Start the Fire (Books & Arts, Film)

Jason Oder’s Let the Fire Burn; Martha Shane and Lana Wilson’s After Tiller; Peter Morgan and Ron Howard’s Rush; anniversary wishes to Stuart Klawans from Rabbi Simcha Feffeferman

Stuart Klawans

Exit Weiner: A Confession (Humor)

Calvin Trillin

An Argument With Instruments: On Charles Mingus (Books & Arts, Music)

How a jazz artist’s relationship to black identity gave his music its stormy weather.

Adam Shatz

First Saturday of Summer in Virginia (Books & Arts, Poems)

Joan Mazza

Salaam Cinema: On Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Books & Arts, Film, World)

An Iranian director’s ongoing meditations on the nature of illusion and reality, truth and consequences.

Adina Hoffman

Hispanic Heritage Month: September 15–October 15 (Humor)

Calvin Trillin

Blogs

The Weird Blend of Apolitical Denial and Shameless Propaganda at the Oscars

Allison Kilkenny

This year’s Oscars swung the pendulum from strangely apolitical to peddled propaganda.

February 25, 2013

Nick Turse: The United States Hasn't Owned up to Vietnam War Crimes

Nation in the News

The author recounts his long, difficult struggle to expose the truth about atrocities.

February 11, 2013

Nothing New Under the Wingnut Sun: 'Textbook Wars'

Rick Perlstein

When conservatives challenge curricula like they did last week in Fairfax County, Virginia, they reveal fundamental tensions in liberal education that aren’t going away.

February 11, 2013

Barenboim Joins Arab and Israeli Musicians in a Tribute to Edward Said

Greg Mitchell

A collaborative musical project he helped found carries on the Nation contributor’s legacy.

January 30, 2013

Nick Turse: The US Military Regularly Killed Civilians in Vietnam

Nation in the News

A new book shows that incidents like the My Lai massacre were part of the widescale killing of non-combatants.

January 30, 2013

'Dirty Wars,' Featuring Jeremy Scahill, Wins a Top Prize at Sundance

Greg Mitchell

The documentary on covert operations around the world takes home the Cinematography award.

January 27, 2013

Positively Folk Street: The Coen Brothers Return With a Film on Greenwich Village in the Early 1960s

Greg Mitchell

The promising new film is said to be based on the memoir of folkie Dave Van Ronk.

January 25, 2013

Football at Ground Zero: The 'Atom Bowl', Nagasaki, New Year's Day, 1946

Greg Mitchell

Was this the wildest football game ever?

December 31, 2012

'Django Unchained': Quentin Tarantino’s Answer to Spielberg’s 'Lincoln'

Jon Wiener

In one film, grateful black people; in the other, the vengeful ones.

December 25, 2012

Watching 'The House I Live In' on Rikers Island

Liliana Segura

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki is on a mission to show his Sundance-award winning movie, The House I Live In, to prisoners across the country. On a Friday in December, he went to New Yor}ks biggest jail.

December 21, 2012