How Radical Change Occurs: An Interview With Historian Eric Foner How Radical Change Occurs: An Interview With Historian Eric Foner
“Rights can be won, and rights can be taken away. Achievements are always vulnerable.”
Feb 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Mike Konczal
Today is FDR’s Birthday: Before the 1932 Election, ‘The Nation’ Was Not Impressed Today is FDR’s Birthday: Before the 1932 Election, ‘The Nation’ Was Not Impressed
“A new deal is needed in the world,” The Nation said, but FDR was not the man to deliver it.
Jan 30, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 1/29/15 What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 1/29/15
What Are 'Nation' Interns Reading the Week of 1/29/15
Jan 29, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation
Jonathan Chait and the New PC Jonathan Chait and the New PC
The new political correctness is real, even if it isn’t always wrong.
Jan 29, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Goldberg
January 28, 1986: The Challenger Space Shuttle Explodes After Liftoff, Killing Seven Astronauts January 28, 1986: The Challenger Space Shuttle Explodes After Liftoff, Killing Seven Astronauts
What do you get when fall in love… with lucrative corporate boondoggles?
Jan 28, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
Uncommon Catastrophes Uncommon Catastrophes
Reconsidering how the Middle East was transformed by World War I.
Jan 26, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Tom Finn
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 1/23/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 1/23/15?
What are Nation interns reading the week of 1/22/15?
Jan 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation
This Long-Lost Constitutional Clause Could Save the Right to Vote This Long-Lost Constitutional Clause Could Save the Right to Vote
It’s time to start enforcing Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
James Baldwin, a Guide in Dark Times James Baldwin, a Guide in Dark Times
His essays on police brutality still burn hot, but his understanding of sex, self-knowledge and power demand equal attention now.
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski
Bonfire of the Humanities Bonfire of the Humanities
Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn