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What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15?

Mar 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation

March 8, 1963: The Ba’ath Party Seizes Power in Syria

March 8, 1963: The Ba’ath Party Seizes Power in Syria March 8, 1963: The Ba’ath Party Seizes Power in Syria

“They must learn to avoid the temptation of crushing the voices of criticism,” a writer in The Nation observed.

Mar 8, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15?

Mar 6, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation

The Great Chastening

The Great Chastening The Great Chastening

For Francis Fukuyama and John Dunn, our democratic crisis is the result of an intellectual failure.

Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney

Impossible Standards

Impossible Standards Impossible Standards

The poems and a new biography of James Laughlin tells of his public success as a publisher and his private disappointments.

Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Adam Plunkett

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/27/15?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/27/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/27/15?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/27/15?

Feb 27, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation

The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War

The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War

Fifty years after the first US troops came ashore at Da Nang, the Vietnamese are still coping with unexploded bombs and Agent Orange.

Feb 25, 2015 / Feature / George Black

A Volcano of Documents

A Volcano of Documents A Volcano of Documents

How the discovery of police archives has altered the memory of political atrocities in Guatemala.

Feb 25, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Peter Canby

Dhaka Stories

Dhaka Stories Dhaka Stories

K. Anis Ahmed’s stringent tales of life in the sprawling capital of Bangladesh.

Feb 25, 2015 / Books & the Arts / André Naffis-Sahely

1975–1985: Standing in Solidarity Against Jackbooted Oppressors

1975–1985: Standing in Solidarity Against Jackbooted Oppressors 1975–1985: Standing in Solidarity Against Jackbooted Oppressors

It is nonsensical that those who support free-market economic policy should pretend to reject the system of terror it requires to succeed.

Feb 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

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