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1965–1975: How To Tell The Rebels Have Won

1965–1975: How To Tell The Rebels Have Won 1965–1975: How To Tell The Rebels Have Won

Vietnam is a unique case—culturally, historically and politically. I hope that the United States will not repeat its Vietnam blunders elsewhere.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

1985–1995: American Politics and Culture is Being Radically Reformed

1985–1995: American Politics and Culture is Being Radically Reformed 1985–1995: American Politics and Culture is Being Radically Reformed

Nation writers on late 1980s New York, Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign, gay rights, Rupert Murdoch's ambitions and the case for federal funding of the arts.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

1995–2005: Our Enemies Cannot Defeat Us—Only We Can

1995–2005: Our Enemies Cannot Defeat Us—Only We Can 1995–2005: Our Enemies Cannot Defeat Us—Only We Can

Nation writers on sensationalist art, financial deregulation, September 11, The Sopranos, Texas, the Iraq war and reactionary conservatism.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

2005–2015: This All Seems Eerily Familiar

2005–2015: This All Seems Eerily Familiar 2005–2015: This All Seems Eerily Familiar

Nation writers on disaster capitalism, Blackwater, Obama, the financial bailout, austerity, Occupy Wall Street, Trayvon Martin and Charlie Hebdo.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

Founding Prospectus

Founding Prospectus Founding Prospectus

The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect or body.

Mar 23, 2015 / The Nation

Toward a Third Reconstruction

Toward a Third Reconstruction Toward a Third Reconstruction

A conversation on The Nation, race and history at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture with Eric Foner, Darryl Pinckney, Mychal Denzel Smith, Isabel Wilkerson and Pat...

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

1865–1875: When Corporations Became America’s Aristocracy

1865–1875: When Corporations Became America’s Aristocracy 1865–1875: When Corporations Became America’s Aristocracy

Such sayings as, “The less government you have, the better,” were adopted as incontrovertible maxims.

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / The Nation

Young ‘Nation’ Writers On Creating Our Radical Future

Young ‘Nation’ Writers On Creating Our Radical Future Young ‘Nation’ Writers On Creating Our Radical Future

As The Nation looks forward to the next 150 years, we asked some contributors to StudentNation, the campus-oriented section of our site, and former Nation interns what a radical fu...

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / The Nation

1875-1885: Custer’s Last Stand and the Power of Tammany Hall

1875-1885: Custer’s Last Stand and the Power of Tammany Hall 1875-1885: Custer’s Last Stand and the Power of Tammany Hall

Just as soon as one "boss" is evicted, another rises to take his place.

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / The Nation

1885–1895: Anarchists Are Vagabonds and Ruffians and Threaten Everything We Most Value on Earth

1885–1895: Anarchists Are Vagabonds and Ruffians and Threaten Everything We Most Value on Earth 1885–1895: Anarchists Are Vagabonds and Ruffians and Threaten Everything We Most Value on Earth

There is nothing likely to prove so effective a deterrent as death.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

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