Nation Topics - History | The Nation

There’s more to American nonprofits than the success of wealthy donors and their large foundations.

Most people caught up in the Algerian War left no accounts of it at all.

Instead of a new era of democracy, disarmament and interdependence, we have had unchecked militarism and economic crisis.

Twenty years later, questions endure about how and why the nation abruptly dissolved.

Ever since 1991, Russians have been looking to the Soviet past for comfort and pride.

Hopes for reform in Burma are starting to be fulfilled, but skepticism of its rulers is still warranted.

A Mexican intellectual takes the measure of liberalism and revolution in twentieth-century Latin America.

Clint Eastwood's cinematic exploration of the FBI chief's rise to power is little more than a comforting myth.

Will it last? Skeptics are entitled to their doubts, but I'm confident that, as with the Populist movement of a century ago, OWS will bring lasting change