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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Articles
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DC's New Green Shoots
Elizabeth Méndez Berry : Some hardcore Obama campaign volunteers find rewarding jobs outside the administration.
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Obama for America's Gallup Pol
Elizabeth Méndez Berry : Nadine Padilla organized for Obama in Native American communities. Now she's passing her skills on to others.
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Back to the USSA
Te-Ping Chen : The country's oldest student association has its eyes on the prize--student aid reform.
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Generation Recession
Lizzy Ratner : Young people have lost 2.5 million jobs to the crisis, making them the hardest-hit age group.
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The State of Youth Organizing
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.
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Stonewall 2.0
Christopher Lisotta : Since California's Prop 8, gay activists of a new generation have jumped into the fray.
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Tales of the Great Recession
The winners of the fourth annual Nation Student Writing Competition addressed how the recession has affected them.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Stalling Justice
: Would Illinois rather keep an innocent man behind bars than admit a mistake?
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Doctorow's Newspaper
: Why do we need newspapers? They help make humans of us.
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Election Tea Leaves
John Nichols : What did we learn from the off-year elections?
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What Ails the Senate
Christopher Hayes : The filibuster has become a cancer growing inside the world's greatest deliberative body.
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Obama, One Year On
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Building a new political order will take more than one election.
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The Google Settlement
Pamela Samuelson : The Google Books settlement is a forward-looking commercial joint venture that far exceeds the scope of the class-action lawsuit.
Reviews
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Gladwell for Dummies
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.
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Survivors
Stuart Klawans : Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Alexander Sokurov's The Sun
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
'G.O.P. Candidate, Pushed By Right, Ends Upstate Bid'
Calvin Trillin : Dede Scozzafava, high achiever, was not a zealous true believer.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Sarah, Smile
Eric Alterman : The next generation of right-wing journalists are largely apparatchiks.
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BENEATH THE RADAR
Europe's Left: Not Dead Yet
Gary Younge : Europeans haven't stopped looking for alternatives to capitalism.
Crossword
Web
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Saving Homes With Mandatory Mediation
Pat Garofalo : Mandatory mediation programs are preventing foreclosures across the country. Congress should do more to support them.
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Right-Wing Rep's Fort Hood Fumble
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.
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America's Future: What Can We Do?
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.
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Money Talks for Blackwater in Iraq
The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's Jeremy Scahill on the revelation that Blackwater bribed local Iraqis following the Nisour Square massacre.
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TruthDig
Gorbachev's Sermon on the Mount
Robert Scheer : "Blessed are the peacemakers" certainly applies to Mikhail Gorbachev, a man not honored enough for the example he set.
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Drone Race to a Known Future
Tom Engelhardt : Armed drone aircraft in Afghanistan and Pakistan are only the latest wonder weapon to promise us the world.
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Blackwater Attempted to Bribe Iraqi Officials
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.
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Legislation Watch: A Nation of Immigrants
Greg Kaufmann : For the first time, family reunification for same-sex binational couples is being included in broader immigration reform.
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Letter From Berlin: Twenty Years After
Paul Hockenos : The commemorations marking the fall of the Wall were joyous. But divisions still plague unified Germany.
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Southpaw
LA Clippers Owner Pays Out for Race-Based Housing Discrimination
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.
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Abortion Battle Puts Health Reform at Risk
Countdown : Nation editor Christopher Hayes is "infuriated" by the last-minute add-on that prohibits coverage for abortion in the House health plan.
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SNL Spoofs Fox News' Election '09 Coverage
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.
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Preparing Undeployables for the Afghan Front
Dahr Jamail & Sarah Lazare : Under the Ft. Hood headlines, a stressed-out Army pushes stressed-out soldiers back into the war zones.
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Healthcare Reform's 'Historic Day'
MSNBC : Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel appears on Morning Joe to weigh in on the House's Saturday evening healthcare vote.
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Detroit Elects Openly Gay City Council President
Matthew Wolfe : Charles Pugh's sexual orientation took a back seat to Detroit voters' concerns about the economy and unemployment.
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What Is the Future of Journalism?
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
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Fixing Too Big To Fail
Mike Konczal : How well will Representative Barney Frank's proposed regulatory reform legislation address the "too big to fail" problem?
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Jon Stewart's Brilliant Beck Parody
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.
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Slide Show: The Obama Youth
The Nation presents images of a unique moment in time: when America's youth rallied and organized in record numbers for the 2008 election.
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Save the Children, in Zimbabwe and at Home
Ophelia Hu : What is poverty? One volunteer's perspective shows us it's all relative.
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Conscience of a Young Conservative
Alana Levinson : Can the Republican Party survive without the enthusiasm of its young supporters?
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The New Okies: Brain Drain in Class of '09
Jeanette Blalock-Davis : Going abroad is no longer just a school-time pleasure cruise. It's an employment opportunity.
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Graduating in the Recession
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.
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The Weight of Our Problems
Aleena Durrani : The looming presence of debt collectors makes high school an even harder.
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Did Republicans Rally the Stock Market?
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.
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Battered But Never Broken
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.
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Economic Adaptation
Christine Chang : The recession has been a rite of passage for Generation Y, who are now more than prepared for the struggles of adulthood.
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The Recession Epidemic
Eric Siguenza : There is no better way to teach someone the value of a dollar or about financial responsibility than a recession.
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Boston Bound
Christopher Criswell : Everything's a gamble. The American Dream is about waiting to get lucky now.
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Obama Youthquake: One Year Later
VideoNation : One year after young voters and organizers helped propel President Obama to victory, are "Obama's youth" still active?
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The Domino Effect
Elizabeth Méndez Berry : 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
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