Slide Show: The Nation's Presidents
As we celebrate this country's birth, here is a look back at the leaders who have shaped our times, from Lincoln to Obama.
2009
2002
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The Senate's Fighting Liberal
Sen. Ted Kennedy has passed away at the age of 77. This 2002 Nation profile by the late Jack Newfield captures the essence of what this legend meant to the progressive movement.
1998
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Free Willie
The president leaves a stain on his presidency, his marriage and, literally, on Monica Lewinsky.
1996
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Everybody Knows Walter Cronkite
The late, legendary broadcaster shares his prescient impressions of the state of national media in America.
1989
1988
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Squire Willie
Robert Sherrill : Conservatives & The American Right
A not-too-fond remembrance of "Squire Willie," patron saint of post-World War II American conservatism.
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King Cohn
Roy Cohn was one of the most loathsome characters in American history, so why did he have so many influential friends?
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A Charismatic Candidate
Flawed and flamboyant, the charismatic Jesse Jackson wasn't the perfect candidate, but his idealism led The Nation to endorse his bid for the White House.
1984
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Before His Time
Maybe C. Wright Mills's greatest legacy was a decade of activism and rebellion.
1983
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Kristol's Red Persuasion?
Drawing on his past as a Trotskyite, Irving Kristol states his case for capitalism--but cautiously.
1981
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A Reluctant Big Shot
Everyone is fussing about the departure of Walter Cronkite from the CBS Evening News--everyone that is except Cronkite.
1980
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Fred Rodell
Fred Rodell is largely forgotten these days, but as the "bad boy of American legal academia" he inspired several generations of Yale Law School students to think differently about their chosen profession. Sidney Zion was one of them.
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Bill Douglas
Sidney Zion celebrates the courage and independence of the late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
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