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Bin Laden’s Nuclear Connection Bin Laden’s Nuclear Connection

If America had agreed to a nuclear-free world, we wouldn't face threats today.

Apr 7, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Martin J. Sherwin and Kai Bird

Our Godless Constitution Our Godless Constitution

The faith of our Founding Fathers definitely wasn't Christianity.

Feb 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Brooke Allen

Intolerable Cruelty Intolerable Cruelty

On May 22, 1787, nine Quakers and three Anglicans gathered in a London print shop with the express purpose of doing something about the international slave trade.

Jan 27, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare

The Inflation of the Attorney-General The Inflation of the Attorney-General

This essay, from the October 1, 1874, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on t...

Jan 12, 2005 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

Babe Lincoln Babe Lincoln

Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Robert Grossman

San Francisco Conference: The Second League San Francisco Conference: The Second League

The delegates may be there to discuss peace, but the cold war is in full bloom at the UN's San Francisco Conference.

Jan 3, 2005 / Feature / Percy E. Corbett

Israel’s Culture of Martyrdom Israel’s Culture of Martyrdom

Nations like to imagine themselves as unique, but one belief they have in common is that it is noble to die in their name. Death and redemption are the themes of almost every for...

Dec 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Baruch Kimmerling

Stanton’s Wisdom Stanton’s Wisdom

One afternoon in January 1892, in a packed convention hall in Washington, DC, the 76-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton rose from her seat to address the annual meeting of the Natio...

Dec 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick

The War That Never Was The War That Never Was

As war threatened Europe in the 1930s, a physicist turned to a psychiatrist to help understand the impending violence.

Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby

Days of Rage Days of Rage

On November 4, 1979, a few months after the collapse of the Iranian monarchy and the inauguration of Iran's Islamic Republic, a group of college students calling themselves the M...

Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Reza Aslan

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