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 ...

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 ...

Nick Serpe ▪ February 17, 2023 Luigi Einaudi, then president of Italy, sits at his desk in 1948. (Wikimedia Commons) In The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to ...

Trump’s fate was sealed after electors met on December 14, 2020, to cast their Electoral College votes. It had been clear for over a month that he’d lost the presidential election, but until that ...

Sarah Jaffe: Give us a quick rundown on the argument of the book. Paolo Gerbaudo: In the aftermath of the 2010s—which were dominated by populist insurgencies of all kinds—and the COVID-19 crisis, the ...