The Democratic Trough at Chicago The Democratic Trough at Chicago
As they nominated FDR, Democratic conventioneers were more interested in grandstanding against prohibition than facing the nation's economic crisis.
Jul 31, 2008 / Feature / Oswald Garrison Villard
Alice Paul Pulls the Strings Alice Paul Pulls the Strings
At the National Women's Party convention, party leaders spurned black women who sought to be included in the suffragist agenda.
Jul 31, 2008 / Feature / Freda Kirchwey
The First Denver Convention The First Denver Convention
When the Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan as their presidential candidate, The Nation was skeptical.
Jul 31, 2008 / The Editors
Obama From the Agora Obama From the Agora
Assessing Barack Obama's mythic destiny: will he become more Athenian than Spartan?
Jul 30, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden
1984: The Left, The Democrats and the Future 1984: The Left, The Democrats and the Future
Democrats seek the center--and lose their moorings.
Jul 29, 2008 / Feature / Alexander Cockburn and Andrew Kopkind
Remembering Eliot Asinof Remembering Eliot Asinof
Eliot Asinof, blacklisted author of Eight Men Out, created a lifetime of work celebrating rebels and victims of injustice.
Jun 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jeff Kisseloff
City of Fear City of Fear
A new book explores the historical ties between African-American and Japanese-American communities in Los Angeles.
Jun 11, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
The Reminder-General The Reminder-General
Tony Judt fears the twenty-first century has spawned a culture hell- bent on forgetting the past.
May 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Stefan Collini
Sweet Martin’s Badass Song Sweet Martin’s Badass Song
Several new books on Martin Luther King takes a closer look at the rhetoric and economic politics of the civil rights icon.
May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul
Dreaming Obama in North Carolina Dreaming Obama in North Carolina
Conversations with historian John Hope Franklin and civil rights heroes about race, memory and the possibility of change.
Apr 23, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden