August 27-September 3, 2018, Issue

Feature

The Siege of Chicago at 50: Todd Gitlin Remembers

“There was an apocalyptic, confrontational spirit.”
Sasha Abramsky
What Is Freedom?

A personal reflection on how a generation tested the meaning of that word in 1968.
Arthur Goldhammer
Mexico’s Tlatelolco Massacre, and Its Echoes Today

Elena Poniatowska, author of an iconic book about those killings, says the 2014 Ayotzinapa disappearances are even more appalling.
Michael K. Schuessler
The Most Interesting and Important Things We Published in 1968

The Nation’s coverage of a pivotal year.
Richard Kreitner
Can Farming Save Puerto Rico’s Future?

As climate change alters how and where food is grown, Puerto Rico’s agroecology brigades serve as a model for sustainable farming.
Audrea Lim

Editorial

Donald Trump’s Attacks on the Press Are an Attack on Democracy

The president is trying to construct an alternate reality where he alone tells the truth.
The Nation
‘Random Murder, Rape, and Pillage’: A US Soldier Describes 1968 in Vietnam

Whatever you do, don’t eat the apricots out of a C-ration can.
Nick Turse
Collusion Confusion

Jen Sorensen
Democrats Shouldn’t Defend Bad Policies Just to Resist Trump

When Trump strikes a populist tone, expose him as a fraud—don’t back the corporate stance.
Robert L. Borosage
Trump’s War on Children

White House policies form an unprecedented assault on kids—but, of course, not the white kids.
Aziz Huq
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Books & the Arts

Mel Chin’s Social Surrealism

Lamentations and revivals.
Barry Schwabsky
In Tony Kushner’s America

When it first debuted, Angels in America helped mark the rising fortunes of the gay-rights movement in the 1990s and early 2000s. What does it tell us about today?
Benjamin Serby
The Making of 20th-Century New York

The history of America’s extreme metropolis captures a city caught between radicalism and reaction.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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