Oswald Villard

Oswald Garrison Villard (March 13, 1872-October 1, 1949) was a US journalist who wrote many articles for The Nation. He broke with the magazine in 1935 over its support for American intervention in Europe.

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  • 1932: The Democratic Trough at Chicago

    July 31, 2008

    As they nominated FDR, Democratic conventioneers were more interested in grandstanding against prohibition than facing the nation's economic crisis.

  • By Bus Through the Middle West

    March 25, 2008

    A tour of the heartland in the depths of the Great Depression.

  • Issues and Men--and a Woman: Frances Perkins

    March 4, 2008

    "Here is a lost cause no longer lost, but come to triumphant success, and if the pioneers of that cause are looking down upon this scene, there will be rejoicing in heaven on the fourth day of March."

  • An Unconventional Convention

    February 12, 2008

    On Saturday, June 27, 1924, "men and women suddenly rose up after days of utterly degraded and demoralizing vaudeville performances to declaim with passion about two big subjects."

2007

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 10/6/08
Can young voters stand up to suppression and swing Election 2008? Plus: Robert Fisk on the Middle East, and McCain's Russia scandal. (13mb mp3)

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