The War to End All Wars

The ardent but flawed movement against World War I.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

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