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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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Calvin Trillin
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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Letters
Letters From the August 27-September 3, 2018, Issue
In-justice… America’s war habit… Editors’ note… Nicaragua: where the truth lies (
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3473
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
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