Nation Topics - Athens | The Nation

Addressing the issue publicly for the first time, Israel’s leading novelist says an attack would set in motion a “nightmare."

In less than two years, Athens has changed from a reasonably prosperous capital to a broken city.

Jenny Martinez and Kathryn Sikkink offer conflicting histories of the ascendency of international courts.

How the occupied became the occupiers.

The sooner Eurocrats dispense with their calls for more economic centralization, the better off we’ll all be.

After months of political upheaval and chaos in the bond markets, few investors believe austerity programs are a route to growth and debt reduction.

The movement’s urgent challenge is to meet organized repression with organized resistance.

Returning to Athens after three months away, I found the state close to dissolution and people in despair.

In three months, an idea and a hashtag became a worldwide movement. Here’s how they did it.

Bettany Hughes's biography of Socrates is a book that Socrates himself, on a mean day, would have torn to shreds.