Grim Reaper Edition Grim Reaper Edition
The best live shows, audiobooks and Eric's funeral playlist: it's all inside today's Altercation.
Apr 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
The ‘Immortal’ Judith Malina, 1926–2015 The ‘Immortal’ Judith Malina, 1926–2015
The founder of the Living Theater was absolute about her principles as a pacifist anarchist, yet never dismissive or judgmental toward those who didn’t share them.
Apr 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon
April 13, 1919: Eugene V. Debs Is Sent to Prison April 13, 1919: Eugene V. Debs Is Sent to Prison
“How can you punish a man with so compelling a consciousness of the right?”
Apr 13, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
April 12, 1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies April 12, 1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies
“To countless millions,” The Nation wrote, “he was America.”
Apr 12, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 4/9/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 4/9/15?
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 4/9/15?
Apr 9, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation
Jobs and Empire Jobs and Empire
The music of Empire is the theology of capitalism.
Apr 8, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
‘The Nation’ and WILPF: Entwined Histories, Entwined Destinies ‘The Nation’ and WILPF: Entwined Histories, Entwined Destinies
The League’s co-founder, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a Nation staff editor, was known in the magazine’s offices for her habit of “absently nibbling raisins a...
Apr 8, 2015 / Back Issues
April 7, 1994: The Rwandan Genocide Begins April 7, 1994: The Rwandan Genocide Begins
“Uganda denies it, Egypt and South Africa will not comment, and France has yet to fully disclose its role.”
Apr 7, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
April 6, 1896: The First Modern Olympics Open in Athens April 6, 1896: The First Modern Olympics Open in Athens
The Games arrived, The Nation reported, “at a time when the frivolous policy of the best of Greek statesmen has landed the Greek kingdom in the slough of bankruptcy, and done the w...
Apr 6, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 4/3/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 4/3/15?
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 4/3/15?
Apr 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation