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April 12, 1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies

April 12, 1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies April 12, 1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies

“To countless millions,” The Nation wrote, “he was America.”

Apr 12, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

‘The Nation’ and WILPF: Entwined Histories, Entwined Destinies

‘The Nation’ and WILPF: Entwined Histories, Entwined Destinies ‘The Nation’ and WILPF: Entwined Histories, Entwined Destinies

The League’s co-founder, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a Nation staff editor, was known in the magazine’s offices for her habit of “absently nibbling raisins a...

Apr 8, 2015 / Back Issues

April 7, 1994: The Rwandan Genocide Begins

April 7, 1994: The Rwandan Genocide Begins April 7, 1994: The Rwandan Genocide Begins

“Uganda denies it, Egypt and South Africa will not comment, and France has yet to fully disclose its role.”

Apr 7, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

What We Can Learn From the Workers, Activists and Even Politicians Who Tore Down the First Gilded Age

What We Can Learn From the Workers, Activists and Even Politicians Who Tore Down the First Gilded Age What We Can Learn From the Workers, Activists and Even Politicians Who Tore Down the First Gilded Age

Americans were furious at the inequalities of their country 200 years ago. Could they get as angry today?

Apr 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser

We Have Been Talking About Football’s Brutality for 120 Years

We Have Been Talking About Football’s Brutality for 120 Years We Have Been Talking About Football’s Brutality for 120 Years

American parents should keep their sons out of the game.

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

Where Reaganism and Astrology Meet

Where Reaganism and Astrology Meet Where Reaganism and Astrology Meet

It is scarcely news that the President is in the mainstream of popular American credulity. He has been nurtured in the same rich loam of folk ignorance, historical figment and para...

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Cockburn

1965–2015 1965–2015

A forum for debate between radicals and liberals in an age of austerity, surveillance and endless war, The Nation has long had one foot inside the establishment and one outside it....

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan

Clickbait Has Plagued Journalism for 125 Years

Clickbait Has Plagued Journalism for 125 Years Clickbait Has Plagued Journalism for 125 Years

The dragging down of the mighty has been not unpleasing sport in all ages.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / E.L. Godkin and Rochelle Gurstein

What Can the White Man Say to the Black Woman?

What Can the White Man Say to the Black Woman? What Can the White Man Say to the Black Woman?

Only one thing that the black woman might hear.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Alice Walker

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

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