This Is the First Article We Ever Published About the Internet This Is the First Article We Ever Published About the Internet
Authors Kevin Cooke and Dan Lehrer accurately foresaw in 1993 the debate over net neutrality we’re having today.
Nov 19, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
No, the Demolition of the Berlin Wall Was Not the End of Socialism No, the Demolition of the Berlin Wall Was Not the End of Socialism
“Socialism is inseparable from democracy,” The Nation wrote in its 1989 editorial.
Nov 10, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
‘Toward a New Beginning’: Lessons and Parallels From the GOP Rout of 1946 ‘Toward a New Beginning’: Lessons and Parallels From the GOP Rout of 1946
“Let us not fool ourselves in this hour of appraisal…”
Nov 5, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
76 Years Ago: Fairy Tales of the Economic Family, Recovering From Munich, a Letter From an Arab Communist 76 Years Ago: Fairy Tales of the Economic Family, Recovering From Munich, a Letter From an Arab Communist
Snippets from The Nation of October 29, 1938.
Oct 27, 2014 / Back Issues / Back Issues and Richard Kreitner
The Gutsy, Radical Journalism of Andy Kopkind, Who Died 20 Years Ago This Week The Gutsy, Radical Journalism of Andy Kopkind, Who Died 20 Years Ago This Week
Definitive assessments of Ronald Reagan and “the warrior state,” plus early looks at Bernie Sanders and Bill Clinton, and zeitgeist-defining essays on “cold war l...
Oct 24, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
‘If I Were Dictator’: Writers in the ’30s Plot for a Better World ‘If I Were Dictator’: Writers in the ’30s Plot for a Better World
A forerunner of The Guardian’s current series, “King or Queen for a Day.”
Oct 21, 2014 / Back Issues / Back Issues and Richard Kreitner
Alexander Cockburn on the Death of Gary Webb, ‘a Very Fine Journalist Who Deserved Better Than He Got’ Alexander Cockburn on the Death of Gary Webb, ‘a Very Fine Journalist Who Deserved Better Than He Got’
With a new film out about Webb, Kill the Messenger, we look back at Cockburn’s testament to the investigative reporter.
Oct 14, 2014 / Back Issues / Alexander Cockburn and Back Issues
When Christopher Hitchens Went to Hong Kong, He Saw ‘Wised-Up Young People’ on a ‘Globalized Globe’ When Christopher Hitchens Went to Hong Kong, He Saw ‘Wised-Up Young People’ on a ‘Globalized Globe’
And a DC lawyer reflects on his essay from 1984, when Hong Kong was “full of life.”
Oct 7, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
Looking Backward: James Campbell Reviews His Own 1982 ‘Nation’ Essay on Leaving Scotland Looking Backward: James Campbell Reviews His Own 1982 ‘Nation’ Essay on Leaving Scotland
“How can I have seemed so settled in my opinions? So smug in my attitudes?”
Sep 24, 2014 / Back Issues / James Campbell and Back Issues
‘If I Were A Scotchman I Too Should Be Conceited’: Henry James and Others on Scotland ‘If I Were A Scotchman I Too Should Be Conceited’: Henry James and Others on Scotland
A century and a half of writing on the always-possibly-imminent break-up of the United Kingdom.
Sep 18, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues