Zoë Carpenter

Zoë Carpenter is a reporter in The Nation's Washington, DC bureau. She has written for Rolling Stone, Guernica and the Poughkeepsie Journal. An Oregon native, Zoë studied writing and environmental politics at Vassar College.

Articles

Would Chuck Hagel Really Slash the Pentagon Budget? (Arms and Spending Proliferation, Budget Wars, US Military)

Not once has Obama’s nominee voted to reject a defense budget.

Zoë Carpenter

Despite Concerns, Young Voters Tuned In and Turned Out in 2012 (Election 2012, Youth)

Without the youth vote, Obama woud have lost Florida, Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania—and the election.

Zoë Carpenter

Millennial Turnout Crucial to Obama's Re-election (Election 2012, Youth)

Obama will carry the youth vote, but turnout is key, especially among young Latino voters in swing states.

Zoë Carpenter

Election 2012 and the Missing Millennials (Barack Obama, Election 2012, Youth)

Young voters gave Obama a decisive win in 2008. Four years later, the love affair is on the rocks.

Zoë Carpenter

High-Stakes Healthcare Decision Looms for More Than 6 Million Young Americans (Healthcare Policy)

A popular provision of the Affordable Care Act that has helped insure 6.6 million Americans under 26 could be eliminated by the Supreme Court.

Zoë Carpenter

Will Millions of Young Americans Benefiting From the ACA Turn Out for Obama? (US Politics, Healthcare Policy, Electoral Politics)

Fifteen million young adults will gain access to health insurance through Obamacare—if it survives Supreme Court review. Will that win Obama their support?

Zoë Carpenter

Revolution on the Radio (Movements, Occupy Wall Street, Media)

Community radio stations were key to spreading the message of the Occupy movement.

Zoë Carpenter

Digging for Democracy (Economics, Youth, Society)

COLLEGE FINALIST: The range of options that my generation has to choose from has been whittled to a handful of bad ones. I am coming of age not in the land of the free, but in the land of the dependent.

Zoë Carpenter