The Reconstruction-Era Violence Lurking in the Southern Air The Reconstruction-Era Violence Lurking in the Southern Air
An editorial in The Nation’s first issue, 150 years ago, shows the long history leading to yesterday’s attack in Charleston, South Carolina.
Jun 19, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
June 18, 1989: I.F. Stone Dies June 18, 1989: I.F. Stone Dies
“He combined the meat-and-potatoes moxie of a police reporter, the instinct for precision of a scholar, the question-phrasing skill of a Socrates...and the political philosophy of ...
Jun 18, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
The Charleston Massacre and the Cunning of White Supremacy The Charleston Massacre and the Cunning of White Supremacy
He didn’t just target Denmark Vesey’s church—it was the anniversary of Vesey’s suppressed uprising.
Jun 18, 2015 / Greg Grandin
How Instagram Made Basketball Fans See Black Dads How Instagram Made Basketball Fans See Black Dads
Players are providing lasting examples of loving relationships with their children that debunk decades of racist narratives about their absence.
Jun 18, 2015 / Jamilah King
Puzzle No. 3367 Puzzle No. 3367
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Around back of kitchen, attack a pancake (6) 4 Portal opened wide, nearly revolving with effort (8) 9 Money spent…
Jun 18, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
June 17, 1972: The Watergate Scandal Begins, as Nixon Campaign Associates Are Caught Breaking Into Democratic Headquarters June 17, 1972: The Watergate Scandal Begins, as Nixon Campaign Associates Are Caught Breaking Into Democratic Headquarters
“Whatever the motive for the ‘breaking and entering,’ it was not burglary, third rate or otherwise.”
Jun 17, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Ignorant Good Will Ignorant Good Will
How an excesses of idealism and the embrace of violence destroyed the American left in the 1970s.
Jun 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein
Another City Another City
A cruel economics of forced mobility is the new planning mantra of New York City.
Jun 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
Strange Worlds Strange Worlds
Maybe action movies, like youth itself, are wasted on the young.
Jun 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Outside Less Outside Less
I have been outside less, I have taken to saying, in the days since my daughter was born— passive, as though it were somebody else who bore her. And bore her, I also have taken to…
Jun 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Natalie Shapero