By Bus Through the Middle West
Oswald Garrison Villard : U.S. Economy
A tour of the heartland in the depths of the Great Depression.
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Hamilton Explains
The Editors
How Alexander Hamilton "fell into as difficult a position as a public man has ever known, and extricated himself by means which show how much the conventional standards of morals have changed in America since his time."
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Squire Willie
Robert Sherrill : Journalists & Journalism
Surveying the life and accomplishments of the "late" William F. Buckley Jr.
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The Faith of Roosevelt
The Editors : Economic Policy
"To achieve 'social values more noble than mere monetary profit,' to 'keep the money changers permanently out of the temple of our civilization'...would be to transform America."
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Issues and Men--and a Woman: Frances Perkins
Oswald Garrison Villard : Feminism & Women
"Here is a lost cause no longer lost, but come to triumphant success, and if the pioneers of that cause are looking down upon this scene, there will be rejoicing in heaven on the fourth day of March."
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The Two Nuernbergs
Peter de Mendelssohn : History
Awaiting trial for the Nazi atrocities were "twenty shabby men... a ragged, spiritless, motley crew of second-rate characters": Ribbentrop, Hiss, Göring...
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Lenin, Trotzky and Gorky
Bertrand Russell : Russia
"I went to Russia believing myself a communist, but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts...of every creed so firmly held that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery."
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An Unconventional Convention
Oswald Garrison Villard : Political Parties
On Saturday, June 27, 1924, "men and women suddenly rose up after days of utterly degraded and demoralizing vaudeville performances to declaim with passion about two big subjects."
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Wall Street's Crisis
The Editors : U.S. Economy
It was a record day in the history of the Stock Exchange and, coming as a climax to more than three weeks of declining prices, it was most disastrous in hammering down security values.
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'The Mississippi Challenge'
George Slaff : Racism & Discrimination
Black people in the state were "regularly and systematically" denied the vote by "intimidation, harassment, economic reprisal, property damage, terrorization, violence and illegal and unconstitutional registration procedures."
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Jinnah's New Republic
Andrew Roth : Pakistan
Seldom has a state been created under such contradictory pressures or with such a load of full-grown problems.
2007
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Studs's People
For Studs Terkel, the touchstone is memory and speech the stuff of which his art is made.
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Memphis Is Also America
Pat Watters : Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement that erupted in 1968 revealed in a few swift weeks white America's failure to respond to the nonviolence of Dr. King, and black America's recoil into despair and a violence of desperation.
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America's Early Role in the Congo Tragedy
How US financiers helped Belgium's King Leopold rape the homeland of some 20 million Africans.
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Our New Look
Take note of our new look, new features, the return of Comix Nation in the print edition of the magazine.
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Lessons From the Tonkin Gulf
From the Nation, the late senator and onetime editor of this magazine recalls his lonely stand against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, approved by Congress August 7, 1964, which paved the way for the Vietnam War.
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Robert Engler
Remembering the political economist who brought to contemporary issues the research and philosophical vision of a scholar.
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Schlesinger & The Nation
Remembering an eminent activist historian whose passing has left the public sphere much poorer.
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Ford, Nixon, The Nation
The story behind the story of Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon.
2006
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The Evil Abstraction
David Corn : Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Before Bob Gates's confirmation as CIA chief in 1991, the man now designated as Bush's Secretary of Defense was charged with forcing intelligence reports to conform to a tough anti-Soviet line.
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Defending Nat Turner
In response to Herbert Aptheker's critical review of The Confessions of Nat Turner the late William Styron wrote a passionate letter to the editor in defense of his novel.
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David 'Duff' Dretzin
David "Duff" Dretzin had a big heart, a social conscience and a keen sense of humor. He will be missed.
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The Cost of Integrity
Richard Kluger : Publishing Industry
The recent controversy over false claims in James Frey's best-selling memoir "A Million Little Pieces" raises questions about the ethics of the author and of the publishing industry at large. This article opened a 1978 The Nation forum on "Truth in Publishing."
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How Do We Know FISA Is Working?
Herman Schwartz : Civil Rights & Liberties
The illegality of the Bush-approved NSA domestic spying program seems obvious, especially with the passage of FISA in 1978, which requires electronic surveillance to be conducted only with a court order. But in 1983, years before Bush and 9/11, there was some question if the legislation was effective protecting the civil liberties of Americans.
2005
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The Faith of Eugene McCarthy
Robert Sherrill : Democratic Party
Eugene McCarthy, the Minnesota senator, frequent presidential candidate and poet who died Saturday at age 89, never had a chance at the Democratic nomination in 1968. But his passionate anti-Vietnam war campaign would change the course of the war.
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John Lennon Has a Legacy
: Music
John Lennon opened up rock-and-roll to politics, and in an innocent, impulsive way, he worked for peace. When he died, his fans, no longer teenagers, mourned as though a President had been killed. From the December 20, 1980, edition of The Nation.
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AIDS Movement Seizes Control
Mark Gevisser : Medicine/Drugs
Despite its controversy, World AIDS Day has demonstrated how vast and global the AIDS movement has gone. While the extent of AIDS advocacy was not as far-reaching then, in 1987 a burgeoning movement of health care practitioners and gay activists battled the FDA's questionable policies on AIDS drugs experimentation, which included excluding women and i.v. users from drug trials.
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G.M. Stumps the Senators
With assembly plant shut-downs and a massive layoff of 5,000 workers, GM has seen better days. Those include the 1950s, when GM was in trouble with the Senate for being too powerful, and accused of artificially raising prices and creating a monopoly in Detroit.
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Emile Capouya
Emile Capouya, literary editor of The Nation from 1970-1976, was both a working man and an intellectual, who brought trade book publishing to European standards and lived to oppose and be ground down by conglomerates.
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Letter from the (Outgoing) Publisher
Victor Navasky : Media Analysis
As Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel becomes the latest in a long line of publisher/owners of The Nation, Victor Navasky looks ahead to his new role as publisher emeritus and member of the magazine's editorial board.
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Six Days in Paris
As hundreds of riots rock the cities and towns of France, the government imposed a curfew Tuesday and the French tried to make sense of the random attacks and acts of arson erupting all over the country. France has not seen such "civil unrest" since 1968, when students occupied the Sorbonne and spilled out into the Latin Quarter to push for university reform and protest the liberal establishment. The students launched nationwide labor strikes, and hundreds of students and police officers were hospitalized.
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Passing the Torch
: Alternative & Independent Media
Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel takes on the role of publisher and general partner at the magazine, and Victor Navasky becomes publisher emeritus and a member of the magazine's editorial board.
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The Two-Way Squeeze
Rosa Parks was a quiet woman whose refusal to move to the back of a city bus in 1955 helped change the course of history. She is not identified by name in this editorial from the December 24, 1955 edition of The Nation, but the quiet purposefulness that characterized her actions bears eloquent witness to the power of her protest.
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How Liberia Held 'Free' Elections
Michael Massing : Civil Rights & Liberties
Votes are now being counted in the first truly free election in Liberia's troubled history. It's a far cry from the 1986 election, which dictatorial Samuel Doe fraudulently "won" by shutting down not only newspapers but entire political parties. The Reagan Administration just looked on.
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The Red Cross: A Question of Competence
Linda Heller : Health & Disease
The Gulf Coast hurricanes have raised new questions about the integrity and competence of the American Red Cross to respond to national emergencies. In this report from The Nation archive, Linda Heller raised early alarms. July 1, 1996, issue
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Democracy in the Andes
It appears a grass-roots movement has started in Bolivia, which may ultimately prove more important than the ups and downs of any one party.
This week: A look at the advocacy group MoveOn.org at 10. Plus: Controversy in Africa over the indictment of the Sudanese President; Amy Alexander and Chris Rabb on the challenges facing minority journalists in their transition to the web; and The Nation's new sex column. (13mb mp3)
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