March 19, 1917: Congress Adopts Daylight Saving Time March 19, 1917: Congress Adopts Daylight Saving Time
The Nation published a letter opposing “this most vicious and class-discriminatory piece of legislation.”
Mar 19, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 18, 1871: The Paris Commune is Established March 18, 1871: The Paris Commune is Established
The Nation was appalled when “grossly ignorant” laborers and “schemers and visionaries” took over the French capital.
Mar 18, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 17, 1969: Golda Meir Becomes Israeli Prime Minister March 17, 1969: Golda Meir Becomes Israeli Prime Minister
In the Israeli election held forty-six years ago today, a new prime minister was chosen who possessed what The Nation’s Dan Wakefield described as “a proven ability at ...
Mar 17, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 16, 1968: The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam March 16, 1968: The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam
“The obsolete pretensions of sovereign prerogative and military necessity had better be challenged soon if life on earth is to survive,” Richard Falk wrote in The Nation.
Mar 16, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 15, 1965: Lyndon Johnson’s ‘We Shall Overcome’ Speech March 15, 1965: Lyndon Johnson’s ‘We Shall Overcome’ Speech
“No one who heard the President can doubt his sincerity,” The Nation observed, “but neither can we forget the lateness of his conversion.”
Mar 15, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 14, 1879: Albert Einstein Is Born March 14, 1879: Albert Einstein Is Born
Einstein’s achievement, Bertrand Russell wrote in The Nation, was actually “to exclude what is relative and arrive at a statement of physical laws that shall in no way ...
Mar 14, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 13, 1938: Anschluss March 13, 1938: Anschluss
The Nation watches in horror as Hitler takes his first step down "the road to world empire."
Mar 13, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 12, 2009: Bernard Madoff Pleads Guilty March 12, 2009: Bernard Madoff Pleads Guilty
"Madoffgate," Alexander Cockburn wrote, offers some surprising "instruction on how to get through life in one piece."
Mar 12, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 11, 2011: Massive Earthquake in Japan, Followed by a Tsunami and a Nuclear Disaster March 11, 2011: Massive Earthquake in Japan, Followed by a Tsunami and a Nuclear Disaster
Two-thirds of those catastrophes had been foreseen in a 1995 article in The Nation.
Mar 11, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 10, 1957: Osama bin Laden Is Born March 10, 1957: Osama bin Laden Is Born
In The Nation in 1998, Robert Fisk recalled his interviews with "an isolated, almost lonely figure."
Mar 10, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac