The 'What If' and Ted Kennedy Question
Jeff Kisseloff: What path would our country have taken if Ted Kennedy hadn't followed the wrong path in 1969?
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(Genetically Modified) Food For Thought
Jeff Kisseloff: Kirkpatrick Sale predicted the coming controversy about genetically modified crops back in 1999.
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A Selective History of Zionism
Jeff Kisseloff: Sidney Zion was a maverick reporter and prosecutor who celebrated mavericks--with one glaring exception.
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Blockbusters
Slide Show: In the spirit of the summer movie season, a look back at The Nation's coverage of classic popcorn epics.
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Do the Right Thing
Stuart Klawans: New York City's second most-famous Mookie delivers pizza and fights the power in Spike Lee's breakthrough film.
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Star Wars
Robert Hatch: The only film ever made that could be said to have cost the United States government billions--in a missile defense system that only Hollywood could make work.
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Walt Signs Off
Jeff Kisseloff: Cronkite was obviously a fine newsman and anchor, but I think he was much more interesting when he stepped away from the anchor perch and said what was really on his mind.
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Hubris of a President
William Shirer: The man who reported on the Third Reich for CBS finds some disturbing parallels between the Nixon administration and the Nazi government.
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A Reluctant Big Shot
Kurt Vonnegut: Everyone is fussing about the departure of Walter Cronkite from the CBS Evening News--everyone that is except Cronkite.
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Playing Politics With Justice
Jerome R. Waldie : History Archive
Gerald Ford hands Richard Nixon his get-out-of-jail free card.
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Slide Show: Ted Kennedy's Life & Legacy
A tribute to the late, great "Liberal Lion" of the Senate whose dream of a more compassionate nation will never die.
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Susan B. Anthony: The Good Fanatic
Freda Kirchwey : People Archive
She was a fanatic but "a good fanatic" in the fight for women's freedom.
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'The Mississippi Challenge'
George Slaff : History Archive
LBJ responds to national anger and sends a voting rights bill to Congress. It's a good one, but long overdue.
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The Rosenberg Case
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg get the death penalty for a crime that no one seems sure they committed.
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The Bicycle Thief
William Poster : Nation Cinema
Vittoria De Sica's exploration of what an ordinary person must do to survive modern society is one of the landmark examples of neorealist cinema.
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The Killing Fields
Andrew Kopkind : Nation Cinema
Dr. Haing S. Ngor won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the journalist Dith Pran in this account of the Cambodian genocide in the 1970s.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Franz Hoellering : Nation Cinema
A movie that portrays politicians as corrupt? Believe it or not, this film nearly didn't get made for precisely that reason.
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