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Danny Lyon’s Drama of Solitude

Danny Lyon’s Drama of Solitude Danny Lyon’s Drama of Solitude

How did he take such profoundly empathetic photographs?

Sep 6, 2016 / Ratik Asokan

Behind the Sun

Behind the Sun Behind the Sun

In four books about Syria and Egypt, the narrative arc of revolution bends toward disappointment.

Sep 6, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ursula Lindsey

Colin Kaepernick

An Alternate National Anthem An Alternate National Anthem

If you burn Colin Kaepernick’s jersey and love Muhammad Ali, you might be a hypocrite. So here’s something we can all sing.

Sep 2, 2016 / Khalid Rahmaan

Notes From Many Years

Notes From Many Years Notes From Many Years

Helen Gurley Brown’s ideas about women were often as retrograde as the ones she claimed to fight. Why is she still appealing?

Sep 1, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Madeleine Schwartz

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How a Nun, a Vet, and a Housepainter Stood Up to the Threat of Nuclear Weapons How a Nun, a Vet, and a Housepainter Stood Up to the Threat of Nuclear Weapons

Dan Zak’s Almighty reminds readers that the United States’ poisonous and very expensive history of nuclear-weapons production is far from over.

Aug 31, 2016 / Frida Berrigan

Love in a Time of Capital: An Interview With Moira Weigel

Love in a Time of Capital: An Interview With Moira Weigel Love in a Time of Capital: An Interview With Moira Weigel

The author of a new history of dating talks with Nation advice columnist Liza Featherstone.

Aug 29, 2016 / Q&A / Liza Featherstone

Warren Hinckle and staffers

Warren Hinckle’s Truth-to-Power Journalism and Politics Broke the Conventional Wisdom Warren Hinckle’s Truth-to-Power Journalism and Politics Broke the Conventional Wisdom

As the editor of Ramparts, he helped shape the radicalism of the 1960s, and kept on challenging injustice and “professional megabuck politics.”

Aug 26, 2016 / John Nichols

A Summer Blockbuster From the Trump World

A Summer Blockbuster From the Trump World A Summer Blockbuster From the Trump World

Loud, lurid, incoherent, Suicide Squad seems to emanate straight from the Republican’s campaign for president.

Aug 26, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Captivity

Captivity Captivity

If it’s Yuletide in the New World, then what bellies up to the manger are rattler, gator, buzzard. Just as a wooden snake in a basket of toys at this barber shop I bring the boys s…

Aug 25, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

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Letters From the September 12-19, 2016, Issue Letters From the September 12-19, 2016, Issue

Portrait of the artist as an old man… Yes, black lives matter… Not-so-neo-Nazism…

Aug 25, 2016 / Our Readers

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