Science and Health

Doctors’ Brains Doctors’ Brains

It's 9:45 Tuesday night, and the house lights have just come on after the final scene of Wit--the surprise Off Broadway hit about a terminally ill English professor and her exper...

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Suzanne Gordon

Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor

Almost three times as many people, most of them in tropical countries of the Third World, die of preventable, curable diseases as die of AIDS.

Jul 1, 1999 / Feature / Ken Silverstein

Depression Confession Depression Confession

How will we know when women have achieved equality? Male politicians will all be bachelors.

Jun 10, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Morning-After Pill Ban Morning-After Pill Ban

Emergency contraception has the potential to revolutionize women's relationship to sex and birth control.

Jun 3, 1999 / Patricia Miller

The Shame of our Nursing Homes The Shame of our Nursing Homes

Research assistance was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.

Mar 11, 1999 / Feature / Eric Bates

More Beds, More Money More Beds, More Money

Beverly Enterprises controls more than 60,000 nursing-home beds, more than any other company worldwide.

Mar 11, 1999 / Feature / Eric Bates

Nonsilence = Death, Too? Nonsilence = Death, Too?

In seven novels and a collection of essays published since 1981, Sarah Schulman has methodically chronicled the history of her longtime neighborhood, Manhattan's East Village.

Feb 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark J. Huisman

The Gift of Time The Gift of Time

The case for abolition of nuclear weapons.

Feb 2, 1998 / Jonathan Schell

Hawaii Wakes Up To Pesticides

Hawaii Wakes Up To Pesticides Hawaii Wakes Up To Pesticides

The US Department of Agriculture plans to eradicate three species of fruit fly in Hawaii by spraying suspected carcinogens and mutagens on the islands.

Mar 2, 1985 / W.S. Merwin

Apollo 11

Space Is Not Black Space Is Not Black

Days before the Apollo 11 launch in 1969, The Nation lamented a government that spent freely on white astronauts, engineers, and contractors, but could not find jobs at home for it...

Jun 30, 1969 / Jack Robertson

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