This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Reefer Madness on Campus and Park Avenue This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Reefer Madness on Campus and Park Avenue
Our endorsement of marijuana legalization comes after decades of questioning the fundamental assumptions of the War on Drugs.
Oct 26, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Wendell Berry’s Humanism and Wisdom for Our Times This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Wendell Berry’s Humanism and Wisdom for Our Times
This year's winner of the Roosevelt Institute’s Freedom Medal is as adept detailing the mechanics of a mine-triggered landslide as he is at critiquing the dangerous combi...
Oct 19, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Our Nobel Peace Prize–Winning Writers (and One Editor) This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Our Nobel Peace Prize–Winning Writers (and One Editor)
Former staff editor Emily Greene Balch's 1946 Peace Prize win “recognized how much private citizens can contribute to the conditions for international peace.”
Oct 12, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eighty Years of Opposition to Universal and Affordable Healthcare This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eighty Years of Opposition to Universal and Affordable Healthcare
Opposition to affordable healthcare has always been backed by untold sums of corporate money and marked by a notably consistent streak of red-baiting rhetoric and doom-saying predi...
Oct 5, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Government Shutdown as Coup d’État This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Government Shutdown as Coup d’État
In a brilliant 1996 essay, political theorist Sheldon Wolin connected austerity economics to a broader Republican philosophy of governance--or lack thereof.
Sep 28, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Iran and the US, From Coup to Revolution—to Détente? This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Iran and the US, From Coup to Revolution—to Détente?
Reading through this complicated history in our pages, one sees how much has gone wrong between the two countries, but also how much could be set right.
Sep 20, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
America’s Afghan Victims America’s Afghan Victims
Even among staunchly antiwar politicians and pundits, few bother to mention the cost of the war to civilians.
Sep 18, 2013 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss and Nick Turse
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Saul Landau’s Investigations of US Ties to the Pinochet Regime This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Saul Landau’s Investigations of US Ties to the Pinochet Regime
The late Saul Landau spent years investigating the assassination in Washington, DC, of his friend, Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean foreign minister. What he found pointed righ...
Sep 13, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: How We Can Reclaim Education Reform This Week in ‘Nation’ History: How We Can Reclaim Education Reform
Corporate-style education &lquo;reform” has been tried, and it has failed; the path forward is clear.
Sep 7, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: James Baldwin’s Four Decades of Prophecy, Confession, Emotion and Style This Week in ‘Nation’ History: James Baldwin’s Four Decades of Prophecy, Confession, Emotion and Style
Baldwin published his first piece in The Nation, and for many years thereafter continued to attack a system he thought as close to anarchy as to martial law.
Aug 10, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel