Solar Power Is on the Rise? We Suggested Harnessing the Sun’s Heat Back in 1866 Solar Power Is on the Rise? We Suggested Harnessing the Sun’s Heat Back in 1866
We look back to the time when a science columnist wrote up one possible replacement for "the fossil fuel which is now so important an element in the existing order of human society...
Apr 22, 2015 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
In Our Orbit: Vigilance In Our Orbit: Vigilance
In Eric Foner’s Gateway to Freedom, the Underground Railroad is a network of dignity and defiance.
Apr 22, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory
On the war’s 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon’s whitewashed history.
Apr 15, 2015 / Feature / Jon Wiener
The Deep Roots of the Ukraine Crisis The Deep Roots of the Ukraine Crisis
We must rethink the post–Cold War security order.
Apr 15, 2015 / Feature / Richard Sakwa
Liberalism as a Fighting Faith Liberalism as a Fighting Faith
Larry Sidentop re-imagines the origins of liberalism.
Apr 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / James Miller
April 12, 1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies April 12, 1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies
“To countless millions,” The Nation wrote, “he was America.”
Apr 12, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
‘The Nation’ and WILPF: Entwined Histories, Entwined Destinies ‘The Nation’ and WILPF: Entwined Histories, Entwined Destinies
The League’s co-founder, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a Nation staff editor, was known in the magazine’s offices for her habit of “absently nibbling raisins a...
Apr 8, 2015 / Back Issues / Back Issues
April 7, 1994: The Rwandan Genocide Begins April 7, 1994: The Rwandan Genocide Begins
“Uganda denies it, Egypt and South Africa will not comment, and France has yet to fully disclose its role.”
Apr 7, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
What We Can Learn From the Workers, Activists and Even Politicians Who Tore Down the First Gilded Age What We Can Learn From the Workers, Activists and Even Politicians Who Tore Down the First Gilded Age
Americans were furious at the inequalities of their country 200 years ago. Could they get as angry today?
Apr 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser
Can Men and Women Be Friends? Can Men and Women Be Friends?
Feminism has opened up far more space than could have been imagined in the 1920s.
Mar 23, 2015 / Encounter / Floyd Dell and Michelle Goldberg