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Supreme CourtJune 9, 2015
Vincent Bugliosi’s Trophy Prosecution Wasn’t Charles Manson—It Was the Supreme Court
In a 2001 cover story in The Nation, Bugliosi eloquently denounced the Court's treasonous decision in Bush v. Gore.
Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
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Jails and PrisonsJune 9, 2015
‘Worse Than Forgetfulness’: Prison Escapes, Prison Suicides, Prison Conditions
Two stories in the news represent two very different forms of liberation from the same broken and oppressive system.
Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
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Executive BranchJune 2, 2015
Suspended Surveillance: Two Years of Heretical Thinking
It is worth pausing to consider how far things have moved since the Snowden revelations.
Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
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War and PeaceMay 8, 2015
‘The Black Night Is Over’: On the 70th Anniversary of VE Day, Remembering How War Begets War
It is painful to imagine how much could have been avoided and achieved had The Nation’s warnings been heeded.
Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
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ArchitectureApril 27, 2015
The Whitney Museum and the ‘Pompous Doors’ of American Art
The Nation‘s critic in 1931 said the museum would abet the snobbery that believes “American painting is a second-rate affair.”
Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
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HistoryApril 22, 2015
Solar Power Is on the Rise? We Suggested Harnessing the Sun’s Heat Back in 1866
We look back to the time when a science columnist wrote up one possible replacement for “the fossil fuel which is now so important an element in the existing order of human society.”
Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
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ActivismApril 8, 2015
‘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 as she read clippings.”
Back Issues
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Journalists and JournalismApril 6, 2015
A Note From a Reader (and a ‘Nation’ Son)
Reliving distant memories of the 1950s, in The Nation’s archives and in Cuba.
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ActivismMarch 26, 2015
We Need a Million More Bowe Bergdahls, Says a Former US Army Ranger
To kill somebody for a cause you don’t believe in is potentially worse than being killed yourself, because those scars last forever.
Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
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Nation HistoryMarch 18, 2015
Or to Put It Another Way: 100 Years Ago, We Were Already 50 Years Old
The Nation’s archives, Henry James wrote in our fiftieth anniversary issue, “compose the record of the general life of civilization.”
Richard Kreitner and Back Issues