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
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
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