House Passes 'Historic' Health Reform
John Nichols: Speaker Nancy Pelosi secures necessary votes, but only after accepting unsettling limits on abortion rights demanded by anti-choice Democrats.
John Nichols: Speaker Nancy Pelosi secures necessary votes, but only after accepting unsettling limits on abortion rights demanded by anti-choice Democrats.
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen: In anticipation of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former Soviet president offers a wide-ranging interview to The Nation.
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.

John Nichols
Fox host and Republican senator speculate wildly about how the name of the suspect "tells us a lot," even as Muslim veterans condemn the attack.

Mike Konczal : Economic Policy
How well will Representative Barney Frank's proposed regulatory reform legislation address the "too big to fail" problem?
Matthew Wolfe : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
Charles Pugh's sexual orientation took a back seat to Detroit voters' concerns about the economy and unemployment.
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Barack Obama
Building a new political order will take more than one election.

Lizzy Ratner : Youth
Young people have lost 2.5 million jobs to the crisis, making them the hardest-hit age group.
Christopher Hayes : Senate
The filibuster has become a cancer growing inside the world's greatest deliberative body.
Alana Levinson : Youth
Can the Republican Party survive without the enthusiasm of its young supporters?

The Nation presents images of a unique moment in time: when America's youth rallied and organized in record numbers for the 2008 election.
The winners of the fourth annual Nation Student Writing Competition addressed how the recession has affected them.
The Editors : Death Penalty
Would Illinois rather keep an innocent man behind bars than admit a mistake?

Christopher Lisotta : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
Since California's Prop 8, gay activists of a new generation have jumped into the fray.
Eric Alterman : Conservatives & The American Right
The next generation of right-wing journalists are largely apparatchiks.
Elizabeth Méndez Berry : Activism & Organizing
Nadine Padilla organized for Obama in Native American communities. Now she's passing her skills on to others.

Elizabeth Méndez Berry : Youth, Education, & Children
The 2008 election galvanized young voters and organizers. One year later, where are they?

Injustice in Illinois
Ari Berman
Ft. Hood Drowns Out the Tea Party
Leslie Savan
Election 2009: What Really Changed?
Eyal Press
House Passes Health Reform, But Without Reproductive Rights | Pelosi secures necessary votes, but only after allowing anti-choice Dems to bar access to abortion in new programs.
John Nichols
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Around The Nation | Obama, one year on. Plus: Jeremy Scahill takes your
questions, and a new video series from The Nation.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama Fails in Middle East | Clinton delivers the ultimate diss to Abbas.
Robert Dreyfuss
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Equality Across America | This week, young LBGT activists are staging a National Week of Initiative.
Peter Rothberg
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Slacker Thursday | Dying laptops, recapping the election, the Dow, and the Yankees with the World Series.
Eric Alterman
Calvin Trillin
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Dede Scozzafava, high achiever, was not a zealous true believer.
Kristina Rizga
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The Nation asked leading youth organizers to suggest specific ways the Obama administration could help them mobilize the most diverse and socially progressive generation.
John Nichols
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What did we learn from the off-year elections?
Elizabeth Méndez Berry
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Some hardcore Obama campaign volunteers find rewarding jobs outside the administration.


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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.
Lars T. Lih
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Archie Brown's account of the high politics of communism's collapse is Kremlinology without the guesswork.

Stuart Klawans : Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Alexander Sokurov's The Sun
Charles Taylor
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With his plain, weather-beaten prose, Don Carpenter was a good enough novelist not to have to prove it.

Ronald Grigor Suny : The story of communism's rise and fall in Eastern Europe is a tale of two revolutions.
Alexander Provan : Is the task of philosophy "to learn how to die," or to teach that there is no such thing as a good death?

Richard Byrne : When Yugoslavia disintegrated, so too did the film career of Dusan Makavejev.
Corey Robin : Thomas Hobbes sensed the revolutionary impulses of early modern Europe and transformed them into a defense of the most hidebound form of rule.

Joy Connolly : In The Fires of Vesuvius, Mary Beard unearths the seedier realities of the Roman social and political experience.
Ange Mlinko : In an information economy, tiny asymmetries in language comprehension translate into vast profits--and large-scale collapses.


