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
Modern Marriage Modern Marriage
This essay, from the October 31, 1953, 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 19, 2003 / Feature / Margaret Mead
Why I Said No to Joe Why I Said No to Joe
This essay, from the September 26, 1953, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published, ...
Dec 4, 2003 / Feature / Harvey O’Connor
The Century of the ‘Son of a Bitch’ The Century of the ‘Son of a Bitch’
Errol Morris: After you left the Johnson Administration, why didn't you speak out against the Vietnam War?
Nov 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
In the Driftway In the Driftway
This essay, from the November 25, 1931, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published, c...
Nov 25, 2003 / The Editors
The Gray Zone The Gray Zone
On a hot, dusty summer day in 1998, I drove with friends from Smolensk to the village of Zagor'e to meet Ivan Tvardovsky, a survivor of Stalin's forced-labor camps and the brot...
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lynne Viola
When H.G. Wells Split the Atom When H.G. Wells Split the Atom
This essay, from the August 18, 1945, 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 n...
Sep 4, 2003 / Feature / Freda Kirchwey
Secrets and Lies Secrets and Lies
You would hope that the passage of fifty years might have cleared the passions that once inflamed the Rosenberg case.
Jun 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Philip Weiss