Nation Topics - Stars and Stripes | The Nation

At Fenway Park, a look at the changing relationship between sports and the American military. 

This year's edition of the Venice Biennale sinks under sprawl and overfamiliarity.

Sure, some Americans use their flag in poor taste.  But should they be prevented from doing so?

 A provocative exploration of what Americans can't see in their war zones--but think they can.

By honoring the psychological wounds of soldiers--not shaming them--the armed forces might give fighting men and women the respect they deserve.

As they nominated FDR, Democratic conventioneers were more interested in grandstanding against prohibition than facing the nation's economic crisis.

This year will be remembered both for massive immigrants rights marches and
for the Al Qaedization of immigrants.

Welcome to Nashville, Tennessee, the unlikely symbol of the biggest
American immigrant resettlement since the Industrial Revolution.
It's also the white-hot nexus of the new American nativism.

Todd Gitlin uses patriotism to wallop the radical left in The
Intellectuals and the Flag.

Iraq is changing lives and political sentiments in a small Midwest town.