Nation Topics - Vietnam | The Nation

Why are Yale and other top universities teaching a Grand Strategy seminar if the conditions that seemed to call for grand strategizing no longer exist?

For Mary Dudziak, we are now experiencing a time of permanent war, one that does not bother everyday Americans.

We do not care a whit about their human rights as long as they satiate our unbridled appetites.

The U.S. military is stuck in a four-decade rut.

Vietnam has left town. Say hello to the new syndrome on the block.

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

The mutual resentment between the Afghan people and the US military has broken out in the open.

An interview with Jonathan Schell, the unlikely oracle of Occupy Wall Street, on revolution, non-violent protest and more.

How drone war became the American way of war.

American decline, from a historical perspective.