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Kim Jong-un, Dictator of North Korea and BFF of Dennis Rodman, Threatens to Use Nuclear Weapons Against the United States (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
The Rehabilitation of Elliott Abrams (Foreign Policy, History)
Eric Alterman
Greece Ongoing Crisis Picture
No Exit? Greece's Ongoing Crisis (Books & Arts, Books and Ideas, Disaster Capitalism, Economics, Economic Development, Economic Policy, History, Non-fiction, Economy)

How do Greece’s economists and writers explain its social predicament?

Mark Mazower
What Did Clausen See (Poems)
Grzegorz Wróblewski
Armenian genocide demonstration picture
Two Rights and A Wrong: On Taner Akçam (Books & Arts, Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing, History, Non-fiction, World)

A historian’s view of why political demands, past and present, have weighed on Turkish debates about the Armenian genocide.

Holly Case
A Personal Application of Sequestration (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
Portrait of A.B. Yehoshua
Darkness Lit From Within: On A.B. Yehoshua (Arts and Entertainment, Books & Arts, Books and Ideas, Fiction, Literature, Books and the Arts)

The soul-destroying weariness in A.B. Yehoshua’s stories seems as old as time itself—and unique to contemporary Israel.

Vivian Gornick
Painting Detail of Thomas Nozkowski's, Untitled (9-15) (2012)
Endless Representation: On Giorgio Griffa and Thomas Nozkowski (Arts and Entertainment, Books & Arts, Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

Even when painting is abstract, it never ceases to be concerned with decoration.

Barry Schwabsky
Photo of Louis Agassiz and Benjamin Peirce
Jellyfish or Fossil? On Louis Agassiz (Books & Arts, Science, Biography, Genetics, History, Non-fiction, Books and the Arts, Environment)

Frustrated, stubborn, committed to bad science, was Louis Agassiz anything other than a laughingstock?

Brenda Wineapple
Photo of Photo Booth Metro Station Montreal, Quebec
Shelf Life (Arts and Entertainment, Books & Arts, Film, Fine Art, Photography, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)

Robert Burley’s The Disappearance of Darkness, Harvey Wang’s From Darkroom to Daylight.

Lucy McKeon

Blogs

All Alter-Review Slacker Friday
Eric Alterman

Reviewing two shows in the Lincoln Center's "American Songbook" series, plus the Cowboy Junkies.

February 11, 2011
The Chutzpah Hall of Fame
Eric Alterman

Eric reflects on Martin Scorsese and Reed dissects the Groundhog Day mentality of Fox News's climate change "science," plus reader mail.

February 3, 2011
Dan Bell, RIP
Eric Alterman

On the late Daniel Bell, the very archetype of a committed liberal intellectual, and The New Republic's Marty Peretz, plus reader mail.

January 27, 2011
Slacker Friday
Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman rounds up the best of New York, confronts Reagan's Alzheimer's and reader mail.

January 21, 2011
Rebel Journalist John Ross, the Master of Speaking Truth to Power, Is Dead
John Nichols

American Book Award–winner, chronicler of indigenous struggles and proud radical, Ross wrote his own epitaph: "Life, like reporting, is a kind of death sentence. Pardon me for having lived it so fully."

 

January 18, 2011
This Week at TheNation.com: Hope in 2011. Plus: A New Nation Fellow
Katrina vanden Heuvel

 Hope in 2011. Plus: The Nation Institute welcomes a new fellow.

January 7, 2011
Obama's Bizarre Celebration of a Slave Republic's 'Compromises'
The Notion

The president said many objectionable things in selling his tax- cut plan, but his assertions about America's history of compromising was too much to stomach.

December 8, 2010
Lennon's Last Interview: 'The Sixties Showed Us the Possibility'
The Notion

It was 30 years ago today.

December 8, 2010
Remembering John Lennon, 30 Years On: Days in a Life
Greg Mitchell

 A personal reflection on John Lennon's New York years.

December 7, 2010
Music for Thanksgiving: Let 'All Men Become Brothers'
Greg Mitchell

 Music for giving thanks.

November 25, 2010
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