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Comic Genius

Comic Genius Comic Genius

Robert Grossman (1940-2018)

Mar 23, 2018 / OppArt / Victor Navasky

Robert Mueller sworn in

Trump Attacks the Russia Investigation in Twitter Storm Trump Attacks the Russia Investigation in Twitter Storm

Trump’s showing willingness to litter The Internet with trash on Twitter About the probe. Does this show fear That Robert Mueller’s drawing near? This sort of ranting may provide M…

Mar 22, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The World of ‘Crime and Punishment’

The World of ‘Crime and Punishment’ The World of ‘Crime and Punishment’

A new translation captures the painful backdrop of Dostoyevsky’s classic: the poverty, crime, and violence that shaped much of everyday life in 19th-century St. Petersburg.

Mar 22, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson

Farewell, Robert Grossman

Farewell, Robert Grossman Farewell, Robert Grossman

His cover art, cartoons, and comic strips delighted Nation readers for decades.

Mar 22, 2018 / Victor Navasky

5 Years Later, ‘Lean In’ Seems Like a Relic from Another Time

5 Years Later, ‘Lean In’ Seems Like a Relic from Another Time 5 Years Later, ‘Lean In’ Seems Like a Relic from Another Time

Sheryl Sandberg preached fitting into the power structure. Instead, women are challenging it.

Mar 21, 2018 / Helaine Olen

Today’s Life and War

Today’s Life and War Today’s Life and War

From above, there are no souls, only bodies, but they are seen as hollow forms, moving the way atoms do in the universe — ​unseen.

Mar 21, 2018 / Dunya Mikhail

Selma and the Unfulfilled Promise of Civil Rights

Selma and the Unfulfilled Promise of Civil Rights Selma and the Unfulfilled Promise of Civil Rights

The city’s 20th-century history not only marked a high point in the civil-rights movement; it also captures why America needs more than sporadic intervention if it is to uproot the...

Mar 21, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Elias Rodriques

A New Picture of Karl Marx

A New Picture of Karl Marx A New Picture of Karl Marx

Any movie about Marx raises questions about its means of production. But maybe it’s time for a good, relatively mainstream film about anticapitalists.

Mar 19, 2018 / Annie Julia Wyman

student walkout capitol

How to Organize to Win How to Organize to Win

Rebuilding the democratic infrastructure is too important to leave up to the consultocracy.

Mar 16, 2018 / Marshall Ganz

Gary Cohn

Gary Cohn, Populist Gary Cohn, Populist

His goal was to make an adjustment in taxes That feathered the nest of the Goldmans and Sachses. His mission accomplished, his White House tour ends With many more millions for him…

Mar 15, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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