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From the Archive: A Bold Design for a New South (Racism and Discrimination, From the Archive, Politics)

From 1961 to 1966, King wrote an annual essay for The Nation. In 1963, he cautioned that the American people had mistaken token victories for real progress on racial justice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It Seems to Heywood Broun (Sports, From the Archive, Society)

Baseball is deservedly known as our national sport, for in the World Series just ended in triumph for the Athletics it was evident that the games contained most of the characteristic phases of American life: shrewdness, skill, sentimentality and downright luck.

Heywood Broun

Blogs

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Government Shutdown as Coup d’État

Katrina vanden Heuvel

In a brilliant 1996 essay, political theorist Sheldon Wolin connected austerity economics to a broader Republican philosophy of governance--or lack thereof.

September 28, 2013

This Week in 'Nation' History: Iran and the US, From Coup to Revolution—to Détente?

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Reading through this complicated history in our pages, one sees how much has gone wrong between the two countries, but also how much could be set right.

September 20, 2013

This Week in 'Nation' History: Saul Landau's Investigations of US Ties to the Pinochet Regime

Katrina vanden Heuvel

The late Saul Landau spent years investigating the assassination in Washington, DC, of his friend, Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean foreign minister. What he found pointed right back to DC.

September 13, 2013

This Week in 'Nation' History: How We Can Reclaim Education Reform

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Corporate-style education &lquo;reform” has been tried, and it has failed; the path forward is clear.

September 7, 2013

This Week in 'Nation' History: James Baldwin's Four Decades of Prophecy, Confession, Emotion and Style

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Baldwin published his first piece in The Nation, and for many years thereafter continued to attack a system he thought as close to anarchy as to martial law.

August 10, 2013

This Week in 'Nation' History: Hiroshima and the Roots of American Secrecy

Katrina vanden Heuvel

The bombing of Hiroshima changed everything; but it may not be too late to change it back.

August 3, 2013

The Gore Vidal FBI File

Jon Wiener

The first page, from 1960s, says Vidal made disparaging remarks about J. Edgar Hoover.

July 29, 2013

This Week in 'Nation' History: How Not to Make a Dust Bowl Worse

Katrina vanden Heuvel

The current drought in the Southwest bears echoes of the 1930s, when Nation writers and illustrators evoked what it was like to have “nice hot dust in your nose, eyes, and throat.”

July 27, 2013

This Week in 'Nation' History: What New York City's Mayoral Candidates Might Learn From the Past

Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Nation has been concerned with New York City politics and governance through 32 mayors. This year's candidates could learn a lot by searching through our archives.

July 13, 2013

This Week in 'Nation' History: The Fourth of July and the Meaning of Patriotism

Katrina vanden Heuvel

In our first issue, just after the Civil War, we wrote that in 89 years of celebrating the Fourth of July, never before did Americans have more to rejoice about on Independence Day; in 1991, we asked 100 contributors for their definitions of patriotism.

July 4, 2013