This Week in ‘Nation’ History: What de Blasio Can Learn From His Model, La Guardia This Week in ‘Nation’ History: What de Blasio Can Learn From His Model, La Guardia
Before his mayoralty and after, The Nation repeatedly held La Guardia up as the model of how powerful and progressive a mayor can actually be.
Dec 21, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: How Janet Yellen Can Turn the Fed to the Left This Week in ‘Nation’ History: How Janet Yellen Can Turn the Fed to the Left
Now is the time to implement William Greider’s ideas for a more transparent and democratic central bank.
Dec 14, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: 100 Years of Writing About Marcel Proust’s ‘Almost Wizard Power’ This Week in ‘Nation’ History: 100 Years of Writing About Marcel Proust’s ‘Almost Wizard Power’
Proust, a reviewer wrote in 1921, “may not be what his hero set out to be in his childhood, the greatest writer in the world, but he is one of those.”
Dec 7, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Pardoning the Scottsboro Boys, Eighty Years Too Late This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Pardoning the Scottsboro Boys, Eighty Years Too Late
The Nation immediately recognized Scottsboro as a vital front in the battle for civil rights.
Nov 30, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday
My life as a temp in California’s Inland Empire, the belly of the online shopping beast.
Nov 26, 2013 / Feature / Gabriel Thompson
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Tantalizing Mockery of Thanksgiving, 1931 This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Tantalizing Mockery of Thanksgiving, 1931
President Hoover's holiday proclamation was offensive to millions of poor and unemployed Americans, our 'Drifter' columnist wrote.
Nov 23, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eight Decades of Hannah Arendt and Her Critics This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eight Decades of Hannah Arendt and Her Critics
Arendt's life and work have been debated in our pages possibly more than those of any other twentieth-century philosopher.
Nov 16, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Why Are Children Working in American Tobacco Fields? Why Are Children Working in American Tobacco Fields?
Young farm workers are falling ill from “green tobacco sickness” while the industry denies it and government lets it happen.
Nov 12, 2013 / Feature / Gabriel Thompson
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Debating the JFK Legacy, in Real Time This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Debating the JFK Legacy, in Real Time
Was there more to JFK than a coiffure arranged by facing south in a strong east wind?
Nov 9, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Life and Times of Eric Hobsbawm This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Life and Times of Eric Hobsbawm
Ramachandra Guha’s essay in next week’s issue is only the latest in a long line of critical appreciations of the late historian’s work to be published in The Nati...
Nov 2, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel