Nation Topics - Ella Baker | The Nation

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

When considering Obama's presidency in the long view, remember that history provides many more examples of thwarted resistance than it does of sweeping social change.

The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream.

His convention speech should draw from the wisdom of black women activists who were the prophets of American democracy.

"Change" is this year's Democratic battle cry, but if you don't know how it happens, you're not likely to make it happen yourself.

There was plenty of
gloomy news for women in 2003. American women make just under 80
cents on the male dollar for full-time, year-round work.

We received much mail on "American Rebels," our Independence Day
issue from the forthcoming Nation Books release edited by Jack Newfield
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