The Obama Generation, Revisited
Elizabeth Méndez Berry : The 2008 election galvanized young voters and organizers. One year later, where are they?
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Elizabeth Méndez Berry : The 2008 election galvanized young voters and organizers. One year later, where are they?
Elizabeth Méndez Berry : Some hardcore Obama campaign volunteers find rewarding jobs outside the administration.
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Nadine Padilla organized for Obama in Native American communities. Now she's passing her skills on to others.
Te-Ping Chen : The country's oldest student association has its eyes on the prize--student aid reform.
Lizzy Ratner : Young people have lost 2.5 million jobs to the crisis, making them the hardest-hit age group.
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.
Christopher Lisotta : Since California's Prop 8, gay activists of a new generation have jumped into the fray.
The winners of the fourth annual Nation Student Writing Competition addressed how the recession has affected them.
: Would Illinois rather keep an innocent man behind bars than admit a mistake?
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Why do we need newspapers? They help make humans of us.
John Nichols
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What did we learn from the off-year elections?
Christopher Hayes : The filibuster has become a cancer growing inside the world's greatest deliberative body.
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Building a new political order will take more than one election.
Pamela Samuelson
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The Google Books settlement is a forward-looking commercial joint venture that far exceeds the scope of the class-action lawsuit.
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.
Stuart Klawans : Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Alexander Sokurov's The Sun
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Dede Scozzafava, high achiever, was not a zealous true believer.
Eric Alterman : The next generation of right-wing journalists are largely apparatchiks.
Gary Younge : Europeans haven't stopped looking for alternatives to capitalism.
Pat Garofalo : Mandatory mediation programs are preventing foreclosures across the country. Congress should do more to support them.
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.
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.
The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's Jeremy Scahill on the revelation that Blackwater bribed local Iraqis following the Nisour Square massacre.
Robert Scheer : "Blessed are the peacemakers" certainly applies to Mikhail Gorbachev, a man not honored enough for the example he set.
Tom Engelhardt : Armed drone aircraft in Afghanistan and Pakistan are only the latest wonder weapon to promise us the world.
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.
Greg Kaufmann : For the first time, family reunification for same-sex binational couples is being included in broader immigration reform.
Paul Hockenos : The commemorations marking the fall of the Wall were joyous. But divisions still plague unified Germany.
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.
Countdown : Nation editor Christopher Hayes is "infuriated" by the last-minute add-on that prohibits coverage for abortion in the House health plan.
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.
Dahr Jamail & Sarah Lazare : Under the Ft. Hood headlines, a stressed-out Army pushes stressed-out soldiers back into the war zones.
MSNBC : Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel appears on Morning Joe to weigh in on the House's Saturday evening healthcare vote.
Matthew Wolfe : Charles Pugh's sexual orientation took a back seat to Detroit voters' concerns about the economy and unemployment.
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
Mike Konczal : How well will Representative Barney Frank's proposed regulatory reform legislation address the "too big to fail" problem?
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.
The Nation presents images of a unique moment in time: when America's youth rallied and organized in record numbers for the 2008 election.
Ophelia Hu : What is poverty? One volunteer's perspective shows us it's all relative.
Alana Levinson : Can the Republican Party survive without the enthusiasm of its young supporters?
Jeanette Blalock-Davis : Going abroad is no longer just a school-time pleasure cruise. It's an employment opportunity.
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.
Aleena Durrani : The looming presence of debt collectors makes high school an even harder.
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.
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.
Christine Chang : The recession has been a rite of passage for Generation Y, who are now more than prepared for the struggles of adulthood.
Eric Siguenza : There is no better way to teach someone the value of a dollar or about financial responsibility than a recession.
Christopher Criswell : Everything's a gamble. The American Dream is about waiting to get lucky now.
VideoNation : One year after young voters and organizers helped propel President Obama to victory, are "Obama's youth" still active?
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A group of twentysomethings from San Francisco took an unlikely path to jobs within the Obama administration.
Cover photograph by Lucas Jackson/Reuters, design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels