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The Nation
The Nation is a weekly magazine published by the Nation Institute. First published in 1865, The Nation is headquartered in New York, N.Y. It is the oldest weekly magazine in the U.S. to be continually published. The Nation also has bureaus in London and South Africa.Self-described as "the flagship for the left," The Nation focuses on the topics of politics and culture. Contributors of note have included Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Gore Vidal, Christopher Hitchens, Hunter S. Thompson, Langston Hughes, Ralph Nader, Leon Trotsky, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, John Maynard Keynes and Naomi Klein. The Nation has broken such notable stories as the Valerie Plane leak scandal in 2003 and several articles about the Whitewater scandal in the 1990s. It was the first U.S. publication to report on what would become the Bay of Pigs invasion. The Nation has won 24 National Magazine Awards since 1971. Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editor and Publisher. Roane Carey is Managing Editor, John Palattella is Literary Editor, Betsy Reed is Executive Editor, and Richard Lingeman and Richard Kim are Senior Editors.
Articles from Vol. 271, No. 16, November 20
America and the World: The End of Easy Dominance
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THE PUBLIC DOESN'T WANT TO SACRIFICE TO STAY ON TOP, BUT THERE IS SUPPORT FOR A MODEST INTERNATIONALISM. THAT SUGGESTS A WISE DIRECTION FOR FOREIGN POLICY Nearly a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, foreign-policy pundits are still struggling...
Anthropologists as Spies : COLLABORATION OCCURRED IN THE PAST, AND THERE'S NO PROFESSIONAL BAR TO IT TODAY
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On December 20, 1919, under the heading "Scientists as Spies," The Nation published a letter by Franz Boas, the father of academic anthropology in America. Boas charged that four American anthropologists, whom he did not name, had abused their professional...
A Postcard from Arad
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Arad, where I live, is a small, out-of-the-way town in the Negev desert, in southern Israel. There are Jews and Arabs living here, but so far it has been surprisingly quiet. Not very quiet for myself though, as I happen to be the town's famous "leftist"...
Branding Kids for Life
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If you are the parent of a newborn, beware. Fourteen to eighteen months from now your child will be programmed to nag for a new toy or snack every four hours, "branded for life" as a Cheerios eater or a Coca-Cola guzzler and placed in the loving care...
Death in the Gallery
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DAMIEN HIRST Damien Hirst is 35 years old, and since 1988, when he organized and starred in the legendary exhibition of young British artists titled "Freeze," he has been what one London critic felicitously called the "hooligan genius" of British...
Death Watch
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When the history of this year's presidential campaign is written, the addiction of both Bush and Gore to the obsolete politics of capital punishment will rank high in the annals of moral insensibility and cowardice. In the final debate they fell all...
Don't Blame Ralph
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If Gore loses the White House--and some of you reading this will know whether or not he did--he'll have no one but himself to blame. Readers of this page know I've been something of a Naderskeptic all along (I'm planning a tactical vote for him here...
For Whom the Gong Tolls
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Beijing If you stand in Tiananmen Square and keep your eyes open on a normal day, you will see the tour groups with their "keep together" flags, and the long line waiting to see the mummified Mao in his mausoleum, and the crowd around the entrance...
From the 'Burbs to the 'Hood : ACTIVISTS ARE FINDING SUCCESS SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS ON A REGIONAL BASIS
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This is the latest installment in our "What Works" series, which explores effective strategies for improving people's lives through progressive social change. --The Editors "There's no such thing as the suburbs anymore," says Minnesota State...
Letters
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'If You're Talkin' Politics...' * Mail is still pouring in on our November 6 editorial "The Election and Beyond" from Nader fans and Gore supporters alike. Our suggestion that people in swing states stick with Gore to beat Bush at all costs drew...
Nader: Fast in the Stretch
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Ralph really ran. Against the record of his own faux campaign of 1996, against the expectations even of friends who said he lacked the candidate gene and against the calculations of Democratic strategists who were forced to go from dismissing him to...
Official Secrets Law
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At the close of its session, Congress considered two bills addressing classified information. One had been pending for more than a year, had more than a hundred co-sponsors, was the subject of two lengthy hearings and received virtually unanimous approval...
The Dogs of War
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KIPPUR Had Samuel Beckett written the script for a mud-wrestling contest, to be performed by the Pina Bausch dance troupe, the result might have looked like the scenes of warfare in Kippur. Co-written and directed by Amos Gitai, based on his experiences...
The Last Farm Crisis
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The New Politics of Food The contemporary triumph of free-market capitalism has revealed to farmers, if not to other Americans, the bitter last act in this drama. Farmers can see themselves being reduced from their mythological status as independent...
Time of the Intifada
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Jenin, West Bank All the way up the West Bank, from Ramallah and Nablus to Jenin, the remains of burned tires litter the road. The iron-shuttered shops and empty streets and the high-speed Israeli Army trucks--headlights blazing, steel grills over...
