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Republican Brawl (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
The Globe theater in London
Made in the USA? Letter From London (Books & Arts, Cultural Criticism and Analysis, Non-fiction, Books and the Arts)

Books about London in its Olympic year and after see Americanization eroding the city’s gift for democratic gradualism.

Leo Robson
Paul Hoover
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Shelf Life, Poetry, Books and the Arts)

Paul Hoover’s second edition of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology.

Ange Mlinko
One Issue That Seems to Be Getting Bipartisan Support in the Senate (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
Photos of movement, leaders, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Betty Friedan, Marlene Dixon
Unreal Choices: On The Feminine Mystique (Feminism, Books & Arts, Gender Issues, Books and Ideas, Cultural Criticism and Analysis, Non-fiction)

For Betty Friedan, feminism was humanism: a question of growth, maturation and identity.

Julia M. Klein
Neighborhood (Books & Arts, Poetry)
Judith Harris
Photo of George Saunders
The Strange Arcane: On George Saunders (Class, Books & Arts, Books and Ideas, Fiction, Humor, Literature)

In the short stories of Tenth of December, the impression of chaos belies a careful design.

Aaron Thier
Picture of a copy of G.L. Bernini’s Louis XIV Equestrian
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Biography, Fine Art, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)
Barry Schwabsky
The Quarrels of Others: On Anti-Semitism (Books & Arts, Religion, History, Non-fiction)

With Anti-Judaism, David Nirenberg has recast the debate about the origins and nature of anti-Semitism in Western thought.

R.I. Moore
Kim Jong-un, Dictator of North Korea and BFF of Dennis Rodman, Threatens to Use Nuclear Weapons Against the United States (Humor)
Calvin Trillin

Blogs

This Week: Moving Feminism Forward
Katrina vanden Heuvel

We’ve come a long way, but we’ve a long way to go in progress for women’s rights.

March 9, 2013
Football at Ground Zero: The 'Atom Bowl', Nagasaki, New Year's Day, 1946
Greg Mitchell

Was this the wildest football game ever?

December 31, 2012
'Django Unchained': Quentin Tarantino’s Answer to Spielberg’s 'Lincoln'
Jon Wiener

In one film, grateful black people; in the other, the vengeful ones.

December 25, 2012
Rhyme Is All I've Got: A Q&A With Calvin Trillin
Jon Wiener

How do you rhyme “Obama” with “Yokahama”?

December 16, 2012
Peter Dreier: 'We Stand On the Shoulders' of Social Justice Activists
Nation in the News

From Barbara Ehrenreich to Paul Wellstone, changemakers fighting for equality are the real American heroes. 

October 15, 2012
Gay Baiting Gore Vidal: Politics in 1960
Jon Wiener

During his Congressional run in 1960, the late writer and Nation contributor fired back at a less-than-friendly newspaper publisher.

October 8, 2012
Ralph Nader, 'Lone Ranger,' Rides Again
William Greider

Nader’s The Seventeen Solutions is a subversive primer that should be read in every high school civics class.

October 4, 2012
Dear Hanna Rosin: I'm Doing Fine! Love, the Patriarchy
Bryce Covert

The End of Men’s prediction of an American matriarchy fails to define what that would actually entail.

October 2, 2012
Brooklyn Book Festival, 2012
Peter Rothberg

This Sunday's Brooklyn Book Festival is one of the country's most celebrated celebrations of books, reading and independent publishing.

September 19, 2012
Beyond Obama: Could a True Socialist Actually Gain Power in America? How One Almost Did
Greg Mitchell

Here’s how it almost once happened here.

September 15, 2012