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
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
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
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
Letters From the April 16, 2018, Issue Letters From the April 16, 2018, Issue
Beyond #MeToo… A place to be… After Parkland… A scandal [web only]…
Mar 21, 2018 / Our Readers
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
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, 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
Courage Courage
Stillness until six, the yards and porches giant toy sets for the street cats. Each sleep a baffling practice for leaving you behind entirely, even if we’re touching hands. For the…
Mar 15, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Nate Klug
Translating an Autopsy, or To the Man Autopsied Into 99 Pages Translating an Autopsy, or To the Man Autopsied Into 99 Pages
Please know that I read them all and could not weep, afraid to compromise the task I was handed: to reconstitute this you in the Spanish tongue. Know that I aimed to honor what the…
Mar 15, 2018 / Books & the Arts / José A. Rodríguez