Former staff editor Emily Greene Balch's 1946 Peace Prize win “recognized how much private citizens can contribute to the conditions for international peace.” Peace Prize laureates published in the The Nation include Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Sir Norman Angell, Elie Wiesel, Willy Brandt, Mikhail Gorbachev, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
by Rafael Medoff A prominent liberal journal that spoke out against the Nazi genocide has published an article accusing Israel of genocide, justifying the Hamas pogrom, and denying the Jewish state’s right to exist. Irony? Tragedy? Perhaps both. In its October 9 issue, The Nation featured an essay by Mohammed R. Mhawish, a writer in Gaza, claiming […]