‘The Nation’ and WILPF: Entwined Histories, Entwined Destinies ‘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 a...
Apr 8, 2015 / Back Issues / Back Issues
A Note From a Reader (and a ‘Nation’ Son) A Note From a Reader (and a ‘Nation’ Son)
Reliving distant memories of the 1950s, in The Nation’s archives and in Cuba.
Apr 6, 2015 / Back Issues / Back Issues
We Need a Million More Bowe Bergdahls, Says a Former US Army Ranger 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.
Mar 26, 2015 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
Mar 23, 2015 / Decade in Review / Toni Morrison
The Most Important Thing We Can Do to Fight Climate Change Is Try The Most Important Thing We Can Do to Fight Climate Change Is Try
The future will follow an unpredictable route, but we must still follow a compass called hope.
Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / Rebecca Solnit
Or to Put It Another Way: 100 Years Ago, We Were Already 50 Years Old 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.”
Mar 18, 2015 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
Nobody Thought It Likely to Succeed: Reading Our 20th Anniversary Issue as the 150th Goes to Press Nobody Thought It Likely to Succeed: Reading Our 20th Anniversary Issue as the 150th Goes to Press
“To say that it never went wrong would be to make a claim which, even if well grounded, nobody would acknowledge,” the magazine’s founding editor humble-bragged b...
Mar 16, 2015 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
Hold It Right There: Teapot Dome Belongs to the People! Hold It Right There: Teapot Dome Belongs to the People!
The government just sold off the once-controversial land. Here’s what they should have done with it instead.
Feb 27, 2015 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
We Used to Convict American Torturers, So Why Not Today? We Used to Convict American Torturers, So Why Not Today?
The United States in the twenty-first century has not even attained the relatively enlightened moral standards of the war in the Philippines.
Feb 23, 2015 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
Loving the Puget Sound to Death Loving the Puget Sound to Death
Four decades after the passage of the Clean Water Act, regulators haven’t kept up with the pollution pressure that growing populations put on America’s shorelines.
Feb 4, 2015 / Feature / Madeline Ostrander