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Activist and author Dorothy Canfield Fisher at her desk.

A Christmas Amnesty A Christmas Amnesty

This article, from the December 14, 1946, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation’s Digital Archive.

Dec 21, 2004 / Feature / Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Operation Self-Destruction Operation Self-Destruction

This article, from the August 26, 1968, 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...

Dec 8, 2004 / Feature / Karl M. Purnell

Patriot Acts Patriot Acts

In September 1950, four months into the Korean War, Congress passed the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA), known as the McCarran Act, after its sponsor, the Nevada Democratic...

Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mike Marqusee

After the Fall After the Fall

This article, from the November, 17 1984, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published ...

Nov 10, 2004 / The Editors

In the Bedroom (With Stalin) In the Bedroom (With Stalin)

Stalin continues to fascinate--the central mystery within the riddle inside the enigma that was the Soviet Union. If you Google "Stalin, biography," 166,000 websites come up.

Sep 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Grigor Suny

The Foregone Convention The Foregone Convention

George McGovern carried the day, but the passion was provided by Ted Kennedy.

Jul 13, 2004 / Feature / Robert Sherrill

There He Goes Again There He Goes Again

Near the end of his threadbare, tendentious and dubious hagiography of Ronald Reagan, Peter Schweizer recounts the President's first trip to Moscow, in late spring 1988.

Jun 8, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Walter C. Uhler

Not Necessarily the First Lady Not Necessarily the First Lady

Nancy and Ronald Reagan met, they have repeatedly said, when she was blacklisted by mistake in the early 1950s after having been confused with another actress who had the same na...

Jun 7, 2004 / Feature / Jon Wiener

Eugene McCarthy: 1916-2005 Eugene McCarthy: 1916-2005

Eugene McCarthy, the Senate dove who in 1968 challenged Lyndon Johnson's conduct of the Vietnam War, died Saturday at the age of 89. In this 2004 review of Dominic Sandbrook's biog...

Apr 15, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

The Fog of Cop-Out The Fog of Cop-Out

My dear friend and late Nation colleague Andrew Kopkind liked to tell how, skiing in Aspen at the height of the Vietnam War, he came round a bend and saw another skier, Defense S...

Jan 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Cockburn

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