How a Nun, a Vet, and a Housepainter Stood Up to the Threat of Nuclear Weapons How a Nun, a Vet, and a Housepainter Stood Up to the Threat of Nuclear Weapons
Dan Zak’s Almighty reminds readers that the United States’ poisonous and very expensive history of nuclear-weapons production is far from over.
Aug 31, 2016 / Frida Berrigan
Love in a Time of Capital: An Interview With Moira Weigel Love in a Time of Capital: An Interview With Moira Weigel
The author of a new history of dating talks with Nation advice columnist Liza Featherstone.
Aug 29, 2016 / Q&A / Liza Featherstone
Warren Hinckle’s Truth-to-Power Journalism and Politics Broke the Conventional Wisdom Warren Hinckle’s Truth-to-Power Journalism and Politics Broke the Conventional Wisdom
As the editor of Ramparts, he helped shape the radicalism of the 1960s, and kept on challenging injustice and “professional megabuck politics.”
Aug 26, 2016 / John Nichols
A Summer Blockbuster From the Trump World A Summer Blockbuster From the Trump World
Loud, lurid, incoherent, Suicide Squad seems to emanate straight from the Republican’s campaign for president.
Aug 26, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Captivity Captivity
If it’s Yuletide in the New World, then what bellies up to the manger are rattler, gator, buzzard. Just as a wooden snake in a basket of toys at this barber shop I bring the boys s…
Aug 25, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Letters From the September 12-19, 2016, Issue Letters From the September 12-19, 2016, Issue
Portrait of the artist as an old man… Yes, black lives matter… Not-so-neo-Nazism…
Aug 25, 2016 / Our Readers
Trump Team Strategy? Trump Team Strategy?
For moderates, we’ll bring in Bannon, The loosest sort of alt-right cannon. And even if that tactic fails, We’ll win the gals with Roger Ailes. The only thing this campaign lacks I…
Aug 25, 2016 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Puzzle No. 3406 Puzzle No. 3406
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Inmates report this magazine lacks leadership—it is reminiscent of the completed grid (13) 9 Right around nine, be…
Aug 25, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
An Argentinian Novelist, Out of Oblivion An Argentinian Novelist, Out of Oblivion
Exile, failure, the dread of erasure: Antonio Di Benedetto seems to have transmuted all his life experiences into his novel Zama, which has finally been translated into English.
Aug 23, 2016 / Ratik Asokan
Thomas Struth’s Post-Internet Art Thomas Struth’s Post-Internet Art
His pictures generate a perceptual confusion that might best represent where we stand with technology today.
Aug 23, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky