V.G. Kiernan, 1913-2009
John Trumpbour : History
Remembering a historian of the left, an ideological warrior against empire, witness to India's anticolonial struggles and a persuasive critic of torture and government oppression.
John Trumpbour : History
Remembering a historian of the left, an ideological warrior against empire, witness to India's anticolonial struggles and a persuasive critic of torture and government oppression.
André Schiffrin : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Studs Terkel's longtime publisher looks back on the historian's remarkable career.
Remembering our national griot, the bearer of stories of people, ordinary and extraordinary.
Dennis Kucinich : Non-Fiction
He was our Boswell, our Whitman, our Sandburg. He could get people to open up and share their innermost thoughts and dreams.
He was funny, he was thoughtful, he was committed and, in the end, he was a friend, period.
As Obama accepts his party's presidential nomination on the forty-fifth anniversary of King's most famous speech, a historian looks beyond the obvious analogies.
For Studs Terkel, the touchstone is memory and speech the stuff of which his art is made.
Take note of our new look, new features, the return of Comix Nation in the print edition of the magazine.
Remembering the political economist who brought to contemporary issues the research and philosophical vision of a scholar.
Remembering an eminent activist historian whose passing has left the public sphere much poorer.
The story behind the story of Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon.
David "Duff" Dretzin had a big heart, a social conscience and a keen
sense of humor. He will be missed.
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.
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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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.
Studs Terkel : Dennis Kucinich
In this excerpt from his 2002 book, Studs Terkel recalls an encounter with Dennis Kucinich, "the boy-mayor of Cleveland," and follows his political odyssey.
