Articles

Felix Frankfurter: Joining the League Felix Frankfurter: Joining the League

Should America join the League of Nations? The Harvard professor says the slogan "Join the League" offers too simple a solution for a complex question.

May 16, 1923 / The Nation

The Hosts of Black Labor The Hosts of Black Labor

The South must reform its attitude toward the Negro. The North must reform its attitude toward common labor. 

May 9, 1923 / W.E.B. Du Bois

Shall Women Be Equal Before the Law? Shall Women Be Equal Before the Law?

The removal of all forms of the subjection of women is the purpose to which the National Woman's Party is dedicated.

Apr 12, 1922 / Elsie Hill and Florence Kelley

Jack Dempsey: In the Driftway Jack Dempsey: In the Driftway

The Drifter has some thoughts on the great fighter in the ring who was nowhere to be found when the call went out for soldiers to fight in the World War.

Feb 7, 1920 / Feature / The Drifter

Report of Lincoln Steffens Report of Lincoln Steffens

The soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people.

Oct 4, 1919 / Lincoln Steffens

Rosa Luxemburg grave in Berlin

A Spartacan Manifesto A Spartacan Manifesto

Shortly after the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, The Nation published the manifesto of the German Spartacists, a group the pair co-founded to incite a Marxist revol...

Mar 8, 1919 / Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Franz Mehring

Notes from the Capital: Emma Goldman Notes from the Capital: Emma Goldman

The former dressmaker now fashions herself a revolutionary.

Jun 28, 1917 / Feature / The Nation

Notes from the Capital: Louis D. Brandeis Notes from the Capital: Louis D. Brandeis

With the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis, the Supreme Court gets its first Jewish justice.

Feb 10, 1916 / Feature / The Nation

Notes from the Capital: Jane Addams Notes from the Capital: Jane Addams

The founder of Hull House and former beacon for progressivism struggles to define herself in contemporary America.

Feb 3, 1916 / Feature / The Nation

Henry Ford: Notes from the Capital Henry Ford: Notes from the Capital

The man who spread the gospel of the assembly line launches a new crusade--for peace in Europe.

Jan 13, 1916 / Feature / The Nation

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