The Making of 20th-Century New York The Making of 20th-Century New York
The history of America's extreme metropolis captures a city caught between radicalism and reaction.
Aug 2, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
What Is Freedom? What Is Freedom?
A personal reflection on how a generation tested the meaning of that word in 1968.
Aug 2, 2018 / Feature / Arthur Goldhammer
The Most Interesting and Important Things We Published in 1968 The Most Interesting and Important Things We Published in 1968
The Nation’s coverage of a pivotal year.
Aug 2, 2018 / Feature / Richard Kreitner
Is Trumpism Fascism? Is Trumpism Fascism?
Katha Pollitt examines Trump’s ideology, Mike Lux surveys political strategy, and Harold Meyerson remembers Jonathan Gold.
Aug 2, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
In Tony Kushner’s America In Tony Kushner’s America
When it first debuted, Angels in America helped mark the rising fortunes of the gay-rights movement in the 1990s and early 2000s. What does it tell us about today?
Aug 1, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Serby
The Siege of Chicago at 50: Todd Gitlin Remembers The Siege of Chicago at 50: Todd Gitlin Remembers
“There was an apocalyptic, confrontational spirit.”
Aug 1, 2018 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
In Memoriam: Richard Clark Sterne, Historian of ‘The Nation’ In Memoriam: Richard Clark Sterne, Historian of ‘The Nation’
An avid Nation reader since boyhood, Sterne, who died at 91, wrote an early account of the magazine.
Jul 31, 2018 / Richard Kreitner
Don’t Be a Goofball… Don’t Be a Goofball…
Health care for all? Free college? Those are just a bunch of absurd fantasies!
Jul 31, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow
The Rise and Fall of Kanye and Drake The Rise and Fall of Kanye and Drake
The genres that West and Drake once defined are now the domain of a new generation of musicians.
Jul 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
Fashion’s Cycle Fashion’s Cycle
after Rana Plaza To be born is to risk the ghost of a factory collapse to try it on in intervals in front of the mirror. I loved the baby doll dress like no other. I can see it. I…
Jul 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Rosa Alcala