There’s a Fascist in the White House. Time to Grow Your Own Food.

Under President Trump, gardening is a radical move.

Frida Berrigan

Eve Ensler Reads Emma Goldman

The Nation

November 11, 1918: Armistice Ends World War I

“Every remaining king, whether well-meaning figure-head or despot, should and must go.”

Richard Kreitner

July 28, 1914: Austria-Hungary Declares War on Serbia, Sparking the First World War

“Lest we forget, indeed! About nothing does the mob forget so quickly as about war.”

Richard Kreitner

Germany Got a Way Bigger Bailout Than It’ll Give Greece—and It Led to a More Peaceful Europe

In 1953, the London Debt Agreement canceled half of Germany’s debt. Greece will not get quite so generous a deal.

Miranda Katz

June 28, 1914: Gavrilo Princip Assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Sparking World War I

"Governments cannot yield to terrorism."

Richard Kreitner

May 7, 1915: The Lusitania Sinks, Killing Over 1,000 Civilians

"The torpedo that sank the Lusitania also sank Germany in the opinion of mankind."

Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

When the World Became a Huge Penitentiary

An eloquent portrait of underground life among the undocumented and the damned of the earth.

Emma Goldman and Vivian Gornick

1915–1965

From World War I to Vietnam, from the red scare to McCarthyism, The Nation stood firm for civil liberties and civil rights, even when that meant being banned—or standing alone.

D.D. Guttenplan

Uncommon Catastrophes

Reconsidering how the Middle East was transformed by World War I.

Tom Finn