Nation Topics - Tom | The Nation

From the February 7, 1948, issue.

The Bush Administration's Civil Rights Commission would like us to believe that affirmative action harms black students by placing them in situations where they can't keep up.

The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin explores one of the most influential novels in American history.

Looking for a blast of hot air? Two intrepid literary critics venture
deep into the steaming, muddy jungles of the Fox News pundit's
award-losing prose.

We need to learn a new language of peace and love that we can speak, even shout, to our leaders who only understand the language of greed and murder.

Reviews of The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Me and You
and Everyone We Know and other new films.

Nations, like individuals, sustain trauma, mourn and recover. And like
individuals they survive by making sense of what has befallen them, by
constructing a narrative of loss and redemption.

"In society the homosexual's life must be discreetly concealed. As
material for drama, that life must be even more intensely concealed.

CENTERING GORE "They chose to close
ranks instead of opening up dialogue," California State Senator Tom
Hayden said after the Democratic Platform Comm