Fred Rodell Fred Rodell
Fred Rodell is largely forgotten these days, but as the "bad boy of American legal academia" he inspired several generations of Yale Law School students to think differently about ...
Jun 21, 1980 / Editorial / Sidney Zion
Roe v. Wade Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court gives women the right to choose while also rendering an important lesson on the practical workings of democracy.
Feb 5, 1973 / Editorial / The Editors
Slaughter at Attica Slaughter at Attica
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller turns a prison-wide protest into a wholesale slaughter.
Sep 27, 1971 / Editorial / The Editors
Euthanasia—Pro and Con Euthanasia—Pro and Con
To kill or not to kill: Two experts debate the morality of euthanasia.
Jan 28, 1950 / Editorial / Various Contributors
The Death of Will Rogers The Death of Will Rogers
Was there an American who didn't love Will Rogers whose death along with aviator Wiley Post in an Alaskan airplane crash shocks and saddens the entire country.
Aug 28, 1935 / Editorial / The Editors
Thomas Edison: In the Driftway Thomas Edison: In the Driftway
The Drifter remembers the great inventor.
Nov 11, 1931 / Editorial / The Drifter
Berkman Shoots Frick Berkman Shoots Frick
Alexander Berkman may have been the trigger man, but The Nation says the blame for the shooting of Henry C. Frick falls directly on the Homestead strikers.
Jul 28, 1892 / Editorial / The Editors
The Haymarket Executions The Haymarket Executions
A brief report on the execution of four anarchists for the Haymarket bombing of 1884.
Nov 17, 1887 / Editorial / The Nation
The Social Evil and Its Remedy The Social Evil and Its Remedy
The Nation says that the solution to the problem of prostitution is regulation.
Feb 21, 1867 / Editorial / The Editors
Reconstruction: The Danger of the Hour Reconstruction: The Danger of the Hour
What exactly will be reconstructed? don't know
Sep 21, 1865 / Editorial / The Editors