150th Anniversary

Former Treasury secretary and current Harvard professor Larry Summers listens to remarks during a discussion on low-income developing countries at the annual IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings, April 13, 2016, in Washington, DC. / AFP / Mike Theiler (Photo credit should read MIKE THEILER/AFP via Getty Images)

Larry Summers and the Crisis of Economic Orthodoxy Larry Summers and the Crisis of Economic Orthodoxy

The establishment’s repeated failures are creating room for heterodox ideas.

Jun 16, 2023 / 150th Anniversary / Jeet Heer

Impeachment hearings

Stop Comparing the Trump Impeachment Probe to Watergate Stop Comparing the Trump Impeachment Probe to Watergate

Our obsession with looking backward makes it seem we’re afraid to look forward.

Nov 14, 2019 / 150th Anniversary / Joan Walsh

A Seat at Solange’s Table

A Seat at Solange’s Table A Seat at Solange’s Table

A poem inspired by her new album.

Oct 7, 2016 / 150th Anniversary / Morgan Parker

Eve Ensler Reads Emma Goldman

Eve Ensler Reads Emma Goldman Eve Ensler Reads Emma Goldman

On October 24, 2015, The Nation feted its 150th anniversary with an unprecedented celebration at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn in a renovated Civil War–era Tobacco Warehouse. Fea…

Feb 18, 2016 / 150th Anniversary / The Nation

Tony Kushner speaking at St. Ann's Warehouse.

Tony Kushner Channels Zona Gale Tony Kushner Channels Zona Gale

The award-winning dramatist Tony Kushner, a longtime Nation contributor, reads and comments on the novelist Zona Gale’s historic essay, “The United States and the Artist,” first pu...

Feb 17, 2016 / 150th Anniversary / The Nation

Paying for Journalism That Matters

Paying for Journalism That Matters Paying for Journalism That Matters

Starting January 11, we’ll be using a meter system that will keep The Nation free for new readers, while also asking frequent visitors to help fund our important work.

Jan 10, 2016 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kim

December 31, 1865: The ‘Year of Jubilee’ Ends

December 31, 1865: The ‘Year of Jubilee’ Ends December 31, 1865: The ‘Year of Jubilee’ Ends

“There has probably been no year which the civilized world will have hereafter so much reason to remember.”

Dec 31, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner

December 30, 1936: The United Auto Workers Sit Down on the Job in Flint, Michigan

December 30, 1936: The United Auto Workers Sit Down on the Job in Flint, Michigan December 30, 1936: The United Auto Workers Sit Down on the Job in Flint, Michigan

“Every night at eight the strikers’ band of three guitars, a violin, a mouth organ, and a squeeze box broadcast over a loud-speaker for the strikers and the women and c...

Dec 30, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner

December 29, 1922: William Gaddis Is Born

December 29, 1922: William Gaddis Is Born December 29, 1922: William Gaddis Is Born

“What [The Recognitions] lacks, like all claustrophobic works of art, is imagination.”

Dec 29, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner

December 28, 1973: Alexsander Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ is Published

December 28, 1973: Alexsander Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ is Published December 28, 1973: Alexsander Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ is Published

“The duty is not only to memorialize the fallen, it is also to confront the living.”

Dec 28, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner

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