This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Hiroshima and the Roots of American Secrecy This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Hiroshima and the Roots of American Secrecy
The bombing of Hiroshima changed everything; but it may not be too late to change it back.
Aug 3, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: How Not to Make a Dust Bowl Worse This Week in ‘Nation’ History: How Not to Make a Dust Bowl Worse
The current drought in the Southwest bears echoes of the 1930s, when Nation writers and illustrators evoked what it was like to have “nice hot dust in your nose, eyes, and th...
Jul 27, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: What New York City’s Mayoral Candidates Might Learn From the Past This Week in ‘Nation’ History: What New York City’s Mayoral Candidates Might Learn From the Past
The Nation has been concerned with New York City politics and governance through 32 mayors. This year's candidates could learn a lot by searching through our archives.
Jul 13, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Fourth of July and the Meaning of Patriotism This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Fourth of July and the Meaning of Patriotism
In our first issue, just after the Civil War, we wrote that in 89 years of celebrating the Fourth of July, never before did Americans have more to rejoice about on Independence Day...
Jul 4, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Susan Sontag on the Avant-Garde, Communism and the Left This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Susan Sontag on the Avant-Garde, Communism and the Left
The current production of Sontag:Reborn only begins to portray the complicated relationship between Susan Sontag and The Nation.
Jun 22, 2013 / Blog / Richard Kreitner
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The United States of Surveillance, Through the Years This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The United States of Surveillance, Through the Years
The Nation has kept an eye on the intelligence community every step of the way.
Jun 15, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Politics of Basketball This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Politics of Basketball
“College basketball is, as it was ten years ago, a maggoty mess of moral hypocrisy, out-and-out dishonesty, side-of-the-mouth connivery.”
Jun 8, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: A New Golden Age for Bicycles? This Week in ‘Nation’ History: A New Golden Age for Bicycles?
New York’s new bike-share program could represent a comeback for bicycles, the impending disappearance of which was prematurely declared in The Nation eighty years ago.
Jun 1, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Politicization of the IRS This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Politicization of the IRS
This isn’t the first time the IRS has been accused of tareting political opponents—and it hasn’t always been right-wing groups who have drawn its scrutiny.
May 25, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Reviewers Have Argued About ‘Gatsby’ Since 1925 This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Reviewers Have Argued About ‘Gatsby’ Since 1925
The debate surrounding Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation is nothing new.
May 18, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel