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1915–1965 1915–1965

From World War I to Vietnam, from the red scare to McCarthyism, The Nation stood firm for civil liberties and civil rights, even when that meant being banned—or standing alone.

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

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

American Imperialism: This Is When It All Began

American Imperialism: This Is When It All Began American Imperialism: This Is When It All Began

Accustomed to trampling democracy at home, jingoists cannot be expected to see its virtues abroad.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Horace White and Elinor Langer

Is the UK Labor Party Too Moderate to Be in Power?

Is the UK Labor Party Too Moderate to Be in Power? Is the UK Labor Party Too Moderate to Be in Power?

Its leaders speak the language of social concern, yet their strategy is marked by extreme caution, an avoidance of any appearance of radicalism.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Edward Miliband

When the Constitution Becomes The Last Resort of Scoundrels

When the Constitution Becomes The Last Resort of Scoundrels When the Constitution Becomes The Last Resort of Scoundrels

We know today the Founders were not Fathers to be proud of.

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / Simeon Strunsky and Richard Kreitner

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