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To Which Golden Era Will President Trump Return Us? To Which Golden Era Will President Trump Return Us?

Donald Trump will make America great again—like never before!

Jun 14, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow

Muhammad Ali service

Muhammad Ali’s Funeral Was His Last Act of Resistance Muhammad Ali’s Funeral Was His Last Act of Resistance

The powerful gather in Louisville to pay their respects to someone they tried to destroy, but couldn’t.

Jun 10, 2016 / Dave Zirin

Trump Fascist

Why Trump Now? It’s the Empire, Stupid Why Trump Now? It’s the Empire, Stupid

Amid the wreckage of the Iraq War and the Great Recession, he speaks to a constituency that sees the frontier and outward expansion as peril rather than possibility.

Jun 9, 2016 / Greg Grandin

An Ongoing Dream

An Ongoing Dream An Ongoing Dream

Recurring in almost all of Amit Chaudhuri’s is a stubborn urge: a wish to continue seeing and discovering things as a child.

Jun 9, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple The Odd Couple

Through their editorial work on the writings of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Gershom Scholem forged an unlikely friendship.

Jun 9, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Peter E. Gordon

The Genius of Jane Jacobs, Who Changed the Way We Think About Cities

The Genius of Jane Jacobs, Who Changed the Way We Think About Cities The Genius of Jane Jacobs, Who Changed the Way We Think About Cities

She argued in favor of local wisdom and community visions over the grandiose designs of distant planners.

Jun 8, 2016 / Feature / Roberta Brandes Gratz

Captain America: Without a Country, Again

Captain America: Without a Country, Again Captain America: Without a Country, Again

Marvel Comics would tell you it’s more complicated than this, but Captain America is now (and apparently has always been) a Nazi.

Jun 7, 2016 / Loren A. Lynch

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Forget the Guns—Ban Swimming Pools! Forget the Guns—Ban Swimming Pools!

Guns are not to blame in accidental shooting deaths of toddlers.

Jun 7, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow

Everybody Wants Some!!

Chuffah Degree Zero Chuffah Degree Zero

Why has trivial conversation become essential in contemporary cinema?

Jun 7, 2016 / Joshua Clover

Summer Reading

The Nation’s Summer-Reading List: Part 2 The Nation’s Summer-Reading List: Part 2

Staffers and contributors share their summer reads on populism, the surrealism of immigration, how to write erotica, and more.

Jun 7, 2016 / The Nation

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