The Candlelight Revolution represents in some ways an alternative to the region’s potentially cataclysmic violence. The perils of any war in Korea are clear; the nightmare of nuclear warfare has ...

Manuel Pastor ▪ June 13, 2025 Faith leaders pray in front of National Guard officers at a protest in Los Angeles on June 10, 2025. (Courtesy of Joseph Tomás McKellar) Los Angeles is ...

Leta Hong Fincher ▪ Fall 2016 Li Maizi (left) takes part in a 2012 protest against domestic violence in Beijing. Photo courtesy of Media Monitor for Women Network. When Chinese police detained ...

Ross Perlin is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance. His latest book is Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s ...

Alyssa Battistoni ▪ Spring 2025 Fires burn along the Trans-Amazonian Highway near the Aripuaña National Forest in Brazil in 2021. (Lynsey Addario/Getty Images) In classical political economy, ...

In July 1871, the Nation, like many other Northern media outlets, covered the proceedings of the Tax-Payers’ Convention of South Carolina.Though the magazine was founded by abolitionists, the ...

Mark Engler and Paul Engler ▪ August 29, 2023 Students look at a mural of Antonio Gramsci in Orgosolo, Italy, in 1975. (Mondadori via Getty Images) He has been called one of the most original ...

William P. Jones ▪ February 4, 2022 An oil platform in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2016 (Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images) . Booked is a series of interviews about new books. In this edition, ...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ▪ Fall 2018 Richard Nixon, HUD Secretary Romney, and D.C. Mayor Washington tour a neighborhood damaged by riots after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. (Wally McNamee ...

Timothy Shenk: Let’s start with the end of the book, where you write, “battles for decency and truth are among the most important political battles of our time. And the adjective ‘liberal’ is our most ...

Cornell University Press, 2020, 216 pp. One day a villager was walking by Akşehir Lake when he saw Nasreddin Hodja pouring a bowl of yogurt into the water. “What are you doing, Hodja?” the villager ...

Neoliberalism has many histories. Milton Friedman, the Chicago school, Pinochet, Thatcher and Reagan’s market revolution, IMF structural adjustment, and shock-therapy transition programs for the ...