Howard Zinn and the Joy of a Political Life Howard Zinn and the Joy of a Political Life
The essays in Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident remind us that Zinn was not just a historian: he was also deeply involved in the major twentieth-century struggles for social justice...
Dec 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Frances Fox Piven
Lynching Is Torture and Torture Is Lynching Lynching Is Torture and Torture Is Lynching
Alexander Cockburn, Jonathan Schell and others on “the habit of torture,” baked into society itself.
Dec 15, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia
Renditions, an underground prison and a new CIA base are elements of an intensifying US war, according to a Nation investigation in Mogadishu.
Dec 10, 2014 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Rutherford B. Hayes (but Forgot To Ask) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Rutherford B. Hayes (but Forgot To Ask)
Americans today are a lot more familiar with his presidency than they think they are.
Dec 3, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
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