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I Voted To Impeach Richard Nixon: Here’s What Watergate Means Today

I Voted To Impeach Richard Nixon: Here’s What Watergate Means Today I Voted To Impeach Richard Nixon: Here’s What Watergate Means Today

Neither Congress nor the courts have taken the exam­ple to heart and stood firmly against presidential crimes or serious misconduct.

Aug 7, 2014 / Elizabeth Holtzman

Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I

Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I

The Nation recognized that US isolation would be tested as never before, but didn’t even consider intervention as a possibility.

Aug 5, 2014 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues

Forty Years Later, Our ‘Long National Nightmare’ Is Far From Over

Forty Years Later, Our ‘Long National Nightmare’ Is Far From Over Forty Years Later, Our ‘Long National Nightmare’ Is Far From Over

Watergate itself is “smoking gun” proof of that old axiom about the corruption of power.

Aug 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

‘Gross Cruelty and Fraud’ in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Brief History

‘Gross Cruelty and Fraud’ in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Brief History ‘Gross Cruelty and Fraud’ in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Brief History

The quagmire of the Vietnam War was built on a “queasy foundation of fact and myth.”

Jul 31, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues

Why Does This Nation of Immigrants Always Imprison ‘The Other’?

Why Does This Nation of Immigrants Always Imprison ‘The Other’? Why Does This Nation of Immigrants Always Imprison ‘The Other’?

Has the romanticization of American history allowed the resurgence of discriminatory practices in recent episodes of crisis?

Jul 30, 2014 / Erin Corbett and Back Issues

Great War: The Insane and Familiar ‘War Madness’ of 1914

Great War: The Insane and Familiar ‘War Madness’ of 1914 Great War: The Insane and Familiar ‘War Madness’ of 1914

"About nothing does the mob forget so quickly as about war."

Jul 28, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

Bastille Day, Individualism and the Concept of Progress—in 1939

Bastille Day, Individualism and the Concept of Progress—in 1939 Bastille Day, Individualism and the Concept of Progress—in 1939

Reflections on the meaning of the French Revolution in the shadow of Adolf Hitler.

Jul 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

Sherwood Anderson Has Some Notes on Ohio to Share with LeBron James

Sherwood Anderson Has Some Notes on Ohio to Share with LeBron James Sherwood Anderson Has Some Notes on Ohio to Share with LeBron James

“Have you a city that smells worse than Akron?”

Jul 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

The Shocking Ways We Talked About Birth Control in 1932

The Shocking Ways We Talked About Birth Control in 1932 The Shocking Ways We Talked About Birth Control in 1932

Margaret Sanger and Charlotte Perkins Gilman and John Dewey, oh my!

Jul 10, 2014 / Richard Kreitner

‘The Nation’ Welcomes Canada Into Existence… With a Shrug

‘The Nation’ Welcomes Canada Into Existence… With a Shrug ‘The Nation’ Welcomes Canada Into Existence… With a Shrug

The politicians were happy, if nobody else.

Jul 1, 2014 / Richard Kreitner

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