Books and Ideas

The Most Peaceful Protest

The Most Peaceful Protest The Most Peaceful Protest

When nonviolence isn’t enough.

Sep 29, 2016 / Matt Bors

Everything Is Interesting

Everything Is Interesting Everything Is Interesting

Nicholson Baker goes back to school.

Sep 29, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Evan Kindley

Israeli President Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres and the Zionist Nightmare Shimon Peres and the Zionist Nightmare

The former Israeli president was the very tragic hero of a not-funny comedy.

Sep 28, 2016 / Amos Kenan

Deep Stories: Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Journey into Trump Country

Deep Stories: Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Journey into Trump Country Deep Stories: Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Journey into Trump Country

For many of Louisiana Tea Partiers, "Democrat" wasn’t a bad word when they were growing up but it is now. The well-known sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild went to the heart...

Sep 28, 2016 / Books & the Arts / John B. Judis

What Would Alexis de Tocqueville Have Made of the 2016 US Presidential Election?

What Would Alexis de Tocqueville Have Made of the 2016 US Presidential Election? What Would Alexis de Tocqueville Have Made of the 2016 US Presidential Election?

Feverish thoughts from a moment of “extreme peril.”

Sep 28, 2016 / Feature / Arthur Goldhammer

Fortress America

Fortress America Fortress America

How 20th-century liberals helped create our age of mass incarceration.

Sep 27, 2016 / Books & the Arts / James Forman Jr.

Alcatraz prison

The Case Against Prisons The Case Against Prisons

Alternatives to imprisonment are working around the world—so why isn’t the United States on board?

Sep 26, 2016 / Rebecca Gordon

How to Protest Without Offending Anyone

How to Protest Without Offending Anyone How to Protest Without Offending Anyone

Alternatives for kneeling during the National Anthem, blocking traffic, and more. 

Sep 23, 2016 / Khalid Rahmaan

New York City

‘The Nation’ Has New Digs ‘The Nation’ Has New Digs

From our new offices crosstown, we can see not only the Hudson River but a good stretch of our own history.

Sep 23, 2016 / Richard Kreitner

The Black Panthers’ Overlooked Revolution

The Black Panthers’ Overlooked Revolution The Black Panthers’ Overlooked Revolution

Fifty years later, four women who helped build the party look back on the less-attention-grabbing part of its history.

Sep 22, 2016 / Feature / Yohuru Williams and Bryan Shih

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