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Portrait of a Young Man (1478), by Antonello da Messina
Faces out of the Crowd: On the Renaissance Portrait (Fine Art, History, Books and the Arts)

How Renaissance painters brought human presence to the fore.

Barry Schwabsky
The Uprooted (War and Peace, History, Books and the Arts)

A new history of Europe’s postwar world and its displaced persons.

Holly Case
A supporter of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier
Duvalier and Haiti's Triple Threat (History, World)

Why was Baby Doc able to return after decades of exile and evade justice, despite his crimes?

Amy Wilentz
Of Deserts and Promised Lands: The Dream of Global Justice (History, International Law, Books and the Arts)

Jenny Martinez and Kathryn Sikkink offer conflicting histories of the ascendency of international courts.

Samuel Moyn
The Treason of the Senate (US Politics, Senate, History)

A famous indictment from a century ago aptly describes today’s corrupt legislative body.

David Sarasohn
Portrait of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
Galileo's Credo (Science, Biography, History, Books and the Arts)

Two new biographies differ over the astronomer’s view of the relationship between science and faith.

Paula Findlen
Gregor von Rezzori
A Child of Sleepwalkers: On Gregor von Rezzori (Fiction, History, Books and the Arts, World)

A novelist’s grim portrait of Central Europe between the wars.

Lorna Scott Fox
UFW flag
Looking Back at the UFW, a Union With Two Souls (Labor, Unions, History, Society)

A Q&A with Frank Bardacke, whose new book Trampling Out the Vintage complicates the legend and legacy of Cesar Chavez.

Gabriel Thompson
President Obama making calls to members of Congress
A Spoonful of Sugar: On the Affordable Care Act (Barack Obama, Healthcare Policy, History, Books and the Arts)

Obama and America's hundred-year struggle over healthcare reform.

Bernard Avishai
From À propos de Nice
Shelf Life (Film, History, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)

The Complete Jean Vigo, Travis Wilkerson’s An Injury to One.

Akiva Gottlieb

Blogs

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
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
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
Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney: Together at Last
Jon Wiener

There’s a new Disney exhibit at the Reagan library. But what are drawings of Bambi and Cinderella doing in the National Archives?

July 9, 2012
AIDS and Imperialism: Karma and Colonial Crimes
Robert Dreyfuss

A new book shows that the HIV virus was triggered by wanton imperial depredations.

February 28, 2012
BOOK REVIEW: Tamara Chalabi's 'Late for Tea at the Deer Palace'
Robert Dreyfuss

Ahmed Chalabi’s daughter recounts the family’s saga and the ancien regime.

March 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
Pastors of Plenty: A Right-Wing Attack on Woody Guthrie, 'NYT'—and an Ecumenical Thanksgiving
Greg Mitchell

You can get anything you want at... or can you? Tim Graham thinks not.

November 23, 2010
Mark Twain Hits the Bestseller List: Was He First Political Blogger?
Greg Mitchell
November 20, 2010