Elizabeth Méndez Berry The 2008 election galvanized young voters and organizers. One year later, where are they?
Elizabeth Méndez Berry The 2008 election galvanized young voters and organizers. One year later, where are they?
VideoNation One year after young voters and organizers helped propel President Obama to victory, are "Obama's youth" still active?
Frank W. Lewis
Calvin Trillin
Dede Scozzafava, high achiever, was not a zealous true believer.
Our Readers & Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Editors Would Illinois rather keep an innocent man behind bars than admit a mistake?
Maureen Tkacik Malcolm Gladwell's success as a brand-name thinker rests on the assumption that the unexamined life is the only sort his readers could be living.
The Nation presents images of a unique moment in time: when America's youth rallied and organized in record numbers for the 2008 election.
Joe Wenderoth
Elizabeth Méndez Berry Some hardcore Obama campaign volunteers find rewarding jobs outside the administration.
Eric Alterman The next generation of right-wing journalists are largely apparatchiks.
The Editors
Why do we need newspapers? They help make humans of us.
CNBC The Nation's Christopher Hayes disproves claims that the November 4 jump in the markets is directly correlated with "the Republican sweep" on election day.
Elizabeth Méndez Berry
Nadine Padilla organized for Obama in Native American communities. Now she's passing her skills on to others.
Gary Younge Europeans haven't stopped looking for alternatives to capitalism.
John Nichols
What did we learn from the off-year elections?
Stuart Klawans Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Alexander Sokurov's The Sun
The Daily Show Jon Stweart says there's a war going on in America, and the stakes are nothing less than Glenn Beck's internal organs.
Te-Ping Chen The country's oldest student association has its eyes on the prize--student aid reform.
Christopher Hayes The filibuster has become a cancer growing inside the world's greatest deliberative body.
VideoNation The Nation's John Nichols offers his view on where the media is heading, and how the changes in journalism will impact political reporting
Dave Zirin Donald Sterling was just obligated to pay out the largest settlement ever obtained by the government in a housing discrimination case involving apartment rentals.
Katrina vanden Heuvel Building a new political order will take more than one election.
Lizzy Ratner Young people have lost 2.5 million jobs to the crisis, making them the hardest-hit age group.
MSNBC Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel appears on Morning Joe to weigh in on the House's Saturday evening healthcare vote.
Robert Scheer "Blessed are the peacemakers" certainly applies to Mikhail Gorbachev, a man not honored enough for the example he set.
Kristina Rizga
The Nation asked leading youth organizers to suggest specific ways the Obama administration could help them mobilize the most diverse and socially progressive generation.
Pamela Samuelson
The Google Books settlement is a forward-looking commercial joint venture that far exceeds the scope of the class-action lawsuit.
Saturday Night Live Glenn Beck, Karl Rove and the rest of the Fox News crew declare the Obama presidency over after just ten months in office.
Christopher Lisotta Since California's Prop 8, gay activists of a new generation have jumped into the fray.
Countdown Nation editor Christopher Hayes is "infuriated" by the last-minute add-on that prohibits coverage for abortion in the House health plan.
Greg Kaufmann For the first time, family reunification for same-sex binational couples is being included in broader immigration reform.
The winners of the fourth annual Nation Student Writing Competition addressed how the recession has affected them.
The Rachel Maddow Show The Nation's Jeremy Scahill on the revelation that Blackwater bribed local Iraqis following the Nisour Square massacre.
Elizabeth Méndez Berry
A group of twentysomethings from San Francisco took an unlikely path to jobs within the Obama administration.
GRIT TV Americans voted for change and are getting frustrated with the lack of it, mainly because powerful forces are holding the status quo in place.
Christopher Criswell Everything's a gamble. The American Dream is about waiting to get lucky now.
The Rachel Maddow Show The Nation's Christopher Hayes comments on GOP Rep. Pete Hokestra's decision to leak details of the ongoing Fort Hood investigation.
Eric Siguenza There is no better way to teach someone the value of a dollar or about financial responsibility than a recession.
Christine Chang The recession has been a rite of passage for Generation Y, who are now more than prepared for the struggles of adulthood.
Jacob Stokes After fifteen years as a production manager, one man is now forced to haul trash out of abandoned public housing. Instead of panicking, he is turning the crisis into an opportunity to do good.
Aleena Durrani The looming presence of debt collectors makes high school an even harder.
Michael Cohen A struggling young journalist is forced to take up a job on the side delivering pizza, but with tips dwindling, he wonders if it's really worth it.
Jeanette Blalock-Davis Going abroad is no longer just a school-time pleasure cruise. It's an employment opportunity.
Alana Levinson Can the Republican Party survive without the enthusiasm of its young supporters?
Ophelia Hu What is poverty? One volunteer's perspective shows us it's all relative.
Mike Konczal How well will Representative Barney Frank's proposed regulatory reform legislation address the "too big to fail" problem?
Matthew Wolfe Charles Pugh's sexual orientation took a back seat to Detroit voters' concerns about the economy and unemployment.
Dahr Jamail & Sarah Lazare Under the Ft. Hood headlines, a stressed-out Army pushes stressed-out soldiers back into the war zones.
Paul Hockenos The commemorations marking the fall of the Wall were joyous. But divisions still plague unified Germany.
Jeremy Scahill Top Blackwater staff authorized attempted bribes of Iraqi officials in the wake of the 2007 Nisour Square massacre, the New York Times has reported.
Tom Engelhardt Armed drone aircraft in Afghanistan and Pakistan are only the latest wonder weapon to promise us the world.
Pat Garofalo Mandatory mediation programs are preventing foreclosures across the country. Congress should do more to support them.