John F. Kennedy

The bullshit, the truth… and Trump.

What's still under wraps, and what it might tell us about Lee Harvey Oswald.

The war opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.

To avoid catastrophe, Kennedy turned to diplomacy. Trump would be wise to do the same.

Max Pine, 91, believes that one day “the Republicans will leap ahead of the Democrats and lead in its enactment.”

When Democrats claimed the individual mandate, Republicans lost their best idea for health-care reform.

Kennedy had his own secret back channel with Moscow. It may have kept the superpowers from going to war.

Retro Report explores decades of conspiracy theories -- from the John F. Kennedy assassination to Pizzagate -- and what they can tell us about the world today.

Historians agree on the top three. Below that, there are fascinating trends in opinion.

The 19th century recovery of John Winthrop's sermon, "A City on a Hill."

Covering the island has been a central concern for The Nation since the beginning—producing scoops, aiding diplomacy, and pushing for a change in policy.

The passage of Medicare and Medicaid, nearly fifty years ago, was no less contentious than recent debates about Obamacare.

How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.

For many of us, especially those who weren’t alive when it happened, we’re all watching that event through Zapruder’s lens.

Lyndon Johnson and the events in Dallas.

Only one cousin is in a position of power — and his family can only watch helplessly as he destroys much that they stood for.

By reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, Trump is joining his predecessors in setting forth a competition that he would likely fail at.

He misrepresented the history of the gym-class test. I know because I served on the council that helped modernize it.

With his strange machines and an uncanny, intuitive understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created a new technique for improving strength and movement.

People tend to assume they know exactly what the Cold War was and when it ended. Anders Stephanson argues that this standard chronology doesn’t fit the facts.