Nation Topics - Communist Party | The Nation

A postwar German novelist’s complicated legacy.

He began his career singing about cars and girls before moving on to empty factories and abandoned quarries—and now, with Wrecking Ball, the depredations of Wall Street.

On its fiftieth anniversary, the founding declaration of SDS echoes today in democracy movements around the world.

Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.

Putin will doubtless win the presidency again. But he faces a very different country from the one he has ruled unchallenged for the last twelve years.

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

Mass demonstrations in Moscow and dozens of other cities have been the most striking display of grassroots activism since the early 1990s.

Instead of a new era of democracy, disarmament and interdependence, we have had unchecked militarism and economic crisis.

Twenty years later, questions endure about how and why the nation abruptly dissolved.

Returning to Chile decades after Allende’s death, I was no longer a soldier of the revolution. What changed?