When the Democratic Party fails to use government’s extensive powers to reverse economic disorder, it must be the end of the line for the governing ideology inherited from Roosevelt, Truman and Johnson.
The Cuban exile has a long record of terror, but his trial, starting today, is on lesser charges.
The right-wing nationalist government has defunded and harassed the influential theater community and passed a harsh new media censorship law, threatening the country’s fragile democratic institutions.
The Nation was central to Eisenhower’s understanding of the military-industrial complex.
America may have a black president—but very few other African-Americans have been elected to political office.
The arc of history bends towards justice, but it will not bend by itself.
Conservatives today talk up all kinds of values, but they’re all subordinated to a single goal: class warfare.
If Republicans had their way, citizenship in America would become pay-to-play.
The Nation was central to Eisenhower’s understanding of the military-industrial complex.
America may have a black president—but very few other African-Americans have been elected to political office.
The arc of history bends towards justice, but it will not bend by itself.
Like Siberia itself, Ian Frazier’s Travels in Siberia seems simply to drift off into the distance.
The highlights of 2010 included Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer, Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol and the twenty-fifth-anniversary rerelease of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah.