Missing Home: The Demolition of New Orleans After Katrina Missing Home: The Demolition of New Orleans After Katrina
The city has granted more than 24,000 demolition permits since Katrina. The Nation partnered with The Lens, a nonprofit newsroom in New Orleans, to explore the fate of those proper...
Aug 27, 2015 / Investigation / The Lens and The Nation
Comix Nation Comix Nation
Aug 27, 2015 / Jen Sorensen
Chris Christie, Presidential Candidate Chris Christie, Presidential Candidate
When thinking now of poor Chris Christie, My heart goes out. My eyes grow misty. The White House door to him was shut, ’Twas said, unless he lost that gut. So bariatric work was do…
Aug 27, 2015 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Puzzle No. 3372 Puzzle No. 3372
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Graph to once again take advantage of color (10) 6 Touched fabric (4) 10 Creature you might find in Australia: dea…
Aug 27, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
How the Atheist Son of a Jewish Rabbi Created One of the Greatest Libraries of Socialist Literature How the Atheist Son of a Jewish Rabbi Created One of the Greatest Libraries of Socialist Literature
Books with Marx’s handwritten notes; volumes annotated by Lenin; newspaper clippings from displaced Yiddish journalists—Chimen Abramsky’s book collection had it all.
Aug 27, 2015 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Welcome to Earth: Cuba’s ‘Special Period’ Gets the Sci-Fi Treatment Welcome to Earth: Cuba’s ‘Special Period’ Gets the Sci-Fi Treatment
The funny, scathing, and heart-wrenching universe of A Planet for Rent.
Aug 27, 2015 / Books & the Arts / André Naffis-Sahely
White Hands and Black Skulls: From the Panthers to ‘Straight Outta Compton’ White Hands and Black Skulls: From the Panthers to ‘Straight Outta Compton’
Two new films prove the urgency, and inadequacy, of outrage.
Aug 27, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Writings From the Most Fractured Place on Earth Writings From the Most Fractured Place on Earth
The revival of powerful literature about the Levant sheds light on our 21st-century conflicts.
Aug 27, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Adina Hoffman
How ‘Hamilton’ Is Revolutionizing the Broadway Musical How ‘Hamilton’ Is Revolutionizing the Broadway Musical
The bracing fusion of hip hop and the musical form shows that America’s history—and its future—belong to men and women of color as profoundly as to anyone else.
Aug 27, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon
August 27, 1963: W.E.B. Du Bois Dies August 27, 1963: W.E.B. Du Bois Dies
“A society based on money values may reject such a man as scornfully as one based on the tradition of slavery, but a society based upon character and culture will always welcome hi...
Aug 27, 2015 / Richard Kreitner