The Bold Experimentation of Gwendolyn Brooks The Bold Experimentation of Gwendolyn Brooks
“Where the subject is the Negro people, or the Negro person, Miss Brooks has gone considerably beyond…quaint and for-tourists-only self-consciousness.”
May 5, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Helpful Responses to Baltimore Helpful Responses to Baltimore
Helpfulness not guaranteed.
May 5, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow
How Yemen’s Civil Conflict Turned Into a Regional Proxy War How Yemen’s Civil Conflict Turned Into a Regional Proxy War
“There should be legal and political accountability for the involvement of Western countries in this war,” says activist-turned-journalist Farea al-Muslimi.
May 4, 2015 / Laura Kasinof
Carly Fiorina Is Running to Be 2016’s Sarah Palin Carly Fiorina Is Running to Be 2016’s Sarah Palin
Conservatives say they hate identity politics, but they practice a particularly crude version of them.
May 4, 2015 / Michelle Goldberg
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 5/4/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 5/4/15?
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 5/4/15?
May 4, 2015 / StudentNation / StudentNation
‘The Game Done Changed’: Reconsidering ‘The Wire’ Amidst the Baltimore Uprising ‘The Game Done Changed’: Reconsidering ‘The Wire’ Amidst the Baltimore Uprising
I was a Wire fanatic because I thought it told tough truths about Baltimore City. After the last two weeks, I’m starting to see all that it was missing.
May 4, 2015 / Dave Zirin
When It Comes to Drone Body Counts, Whose Body Counts? When It Comes to Drone Body Counts, Whose Body Counts?
From Vietnam to Pakistan, the business of counting deaths by American hands has never been simple math.
May 4, 2015 / Tom Engelhardt
At Least 240,000 People Want to Cancel All Student Debt At Least 240,000 People Want to Cancel All Student Debt
A coalition including Coalition for America's Future, Daily Kos, Student Debt, and The Nation delivered a petition to Elizabeth Warren calling for the cancelation of all studen...
May 4, 2015 / Nadia Kanji
Why Did These Activists Shut Down the Guggenheim? Why Did These Activists Shut Down the Guggenheim?
The May Day occupation is part of an escalating campaign to get the Guggenheim to end the exploitation of migrant workers at the museum's Abu Dhabi site.
May 4, 2015 / Michelle Chen
May 4, 1886: A Riot Erupts in Haymarket Square in Chicago May 4, 1886: A Riot Erupts in Haymarket Square in Chicago
For its first fifty years The Nation was not quite the friend to workers and organized labor that it is today. Rather it was perhaps the leading American proponent of the laissez-faire school of Manchester liberalism which prescribed minimal regulation and free trade and warned against organized labor. This editorial note, appearing after the dust had begun to settle in Haymarket Square, where a bomb allegedly thrown at the police by anarchists killed eight people, does not specifically mention the riot or Chicago, but its pertinence to what the editors elsewhere in the issue call “the events of the past fortnight” is obvious. Needless to say, The Nation would likely strike a different tone today. When we get outside the law, and begin to allow ever so little intimidation or coercion to be practised by either individuals or organizations for purposes of their own, we begin a descent at the bottom of which is anarchy—that is, arson, pillage, and murder, revolvers, rifles, and bombs…. It is mere folly to suppose that we can in this country have a little lawlessness, or have lawlessness for special occasions and no others. It is something from which communities must abstain together if they do not intend to drink deep of it. May 4, 1886 To mark The Nation’s 150th anniversary, every morning this year The Almanac will highlight something that happened that day in history and how The Nation covered it. Get The Almanac every day (or every week) by signing up to the e-mail newsletter.
May 4, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac