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(Dania Rajendra) EDITOR’S NOTE:&nbspThe Nation believes that helping readers stay informed about the impact of the coronavirus crisis is a form of public service. For that reason, this article, and all of…

Once, in a conversation with a colleague I said casually, “All I really want to do is teach Henry V to colonels.” Shakespeare’s play has some of the most profound insights on leadership and strategy available — plus, I like asking…

Supporters of the Common Core education system will not be pleased with the findings of a new study. U.S. reading and math scores on multiple assessments have all seen “historic declines since most states implemented national Common Core…

On March 11, the World Health Organization officially declared the Covid-19 coronavirus a global pandemic. The coronavirus outbreak originated in Wuhan, China, but it has now spread to most of the world and is surging in places like…

A few months ago, my five-year-old daughter developed a fascination with the Black Death. Neither of us can remember why. A couple of nights ago, I asked her again and she said, “Because it’s interesting.” And she’s right. In October,…

Philosopher Richard Rorty sits before his address in Tehran, in June 2004. (Hasan Sarbakhshian / AP Photo) Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue.…

In Albert Camus’s vision, justice is meaningless without an equally passionate commitment to liberty.Photograph by Loomis Dean / The LIFE Picture Collection / GettySome writers speak to us through the window of their time—we need to get…

“Picture,” by Lillian RossLillian Ross’s “Picture,” originally published in 1952 and now happily reissued by the New York Review Books Classics imprint, is an immensely enjoyable work about the immensely unenjoyable process of making a…

Our latest poetry feature is “The Palace,” a long poem by Kaveh Akbar. Akbar, who was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency M.F.A. programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson, is the author of…

I’m sitting in a small glass soundproof booth. A microphone, suspended from the ceiling, hangs in front of me. This is huge and round, like a luxury showerhead covered with fine metal mesh. Below it, on a slanting surface, lies the…