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Fixing Too Big to Fail

Mike Konzcal: How well will Representative Barney Frank's proposed regulatory reform legislation address the "too big to fail" problem?

Greg Kaufmann: Do They Take Us for Shmucks?

Generation Recession

Lizzy Ratner: Young people have lost 2.5 million jobs to the crisis, making them the hardest-hit age group in America.
- 2009 Nation Student Writing Contest Winners & Finalists
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.

Horror at Fort Hood Inspires Horribly Predictable Islamophobia

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.
Feature

The Obama Generation, Revisited

Elizabeth Méndez Berry : Youth, Education, & Children

The 2008 election galvanized young voters and organizers. One year later, where are they?
Detroit Elects Openly Gay City Council President

Matthew Wolfe : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

Charles Pugh's sexual orientation took a back seat to Detroit voters' concerns about the economy and unemployment.
Obama, One Year On

Katrina vanden Heuvel : Barack Obama

Building a new political order will take more than one election.
Slide Show: The Obama Youth

: Barack Obama

The Nation presents images of a unique moment in time: when America's youth rallied and organized in record numbers for the 2008 election.
Back to the USSA

Te-Ping Chen : Student Movements

The country's oldest student association has its eyes on the prize--student aid reform.
Conscience of a Young Conservative

Alana Levinson : Youth

Can the Republican Party survive without the enthusiasm of its young supporters?
Survivors

Stuart Klawans : Film Reviews

Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Alexander Sokurov's The Sun
Europe's Left: Not Dead Yet

Gary Younge : Europe

Europeans haven't stopped looking for alternatives to capitalism.
Stalling Justice

The Editors : Death Penalty

Would Illinois rather keep an innocent man behind bars than admit a mistake?
Stonewall 2.0

Christopher Lisotta : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

Since California's Prop 8, gay activists of a new generation have jumped into the fray.
Obama for America's Gallup Pol

Elizabeth Méndez Berry : Activism & Organizing

Nadine Padilla organized for Obama in Native American communities. Now she's passing her skills on to others.
DC's New Green Shoots

Elizabeth Méndez Berry : Environmental Activism

Some hardcore Obama campaign volunteers find rewarding jobs outside the administration.
Slide Show: The Nation's 2009 Elections

: Campaigns & Elections

The Nation uncovers interesting trends, rifts and potential problems progressives will need to confront in future elections.

» The Notion

Injustice in Illinois
Ari Berman

Ft. Hood Drowns Out the Tea Party
Leslie Savan

Election 2009: What Really Changed?
Eyal Press

» Editor's Cut

Around The Nation | Obama, one year on. Plus: Jeremy Scahill takes your questions, and a new video series from The Nation.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Double-Digit Unemployment Is Obama's No. 1 Challenge | Job creation is now the top issue in America. The White House and congressional Dems must recognize this or face serious setbacks politically.
John Nichols
108 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Obama Fails in Middle East | Clinton delivers the ultimate diss to Abbas.
Robert Dreyfuss
108 Comments

» Act Now!

Equality Across America | This week, young LBGT activists are staging a National Week of Initiative.
Peter Rothberg
16 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Thursday | Dying laptops, recapping the election, the Dow, and the Yankees with the World Series.
Eric Alterman

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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.
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.
Election Tea Leaves

John Nichols : What did we learn from the off-year elections?

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? More »
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. More »
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. More »
Obama and Organizing: One Year Later

GRIT TV

Nation contributor Elizabeth Mendez Berry discusses how the Obama administration has tried to harness its grassroots efforts post-election. More »

GOP Shuns Palin; Will Obama Help Dems?

The Rachel Maddow Show

Nation blogger Melissa Harris-Lacewell on the GOP's love/hate relationship with Sarah Palin, and Democratic dynamics since Obama's victory in 2008. More »
Limbaugh: Old News or Future of the GOP?

The Joy Behar Show

Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and Arianna Huffington discuss Rush Limbaugh's inaccurate and gratuitous Sunday morning appearance on Fox. More »
A 'Coal' Building on Campus?

The Rachel Maddow Show

The Nation's sports editor Dave Zirin argues that corporate naming rights on college campuses are a bad idea. More »
Obama: One Year Later, What's Changed?

GRIT TV

Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and others discuss what's changed, what's stayed the same and what we still hope to see happen under Obama. More »

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BENEATH THE RADAR

Europe's Left: Not Dead Yet

Gary Younge
THE LIBERAL MEDIA

Sarah, Smile

Eric Alterman
DEADLINE POET

'G.O.P. Candidate, Pushed By Right, Ends Upstate Bid'

Calvin Trillin
SUBJECT TO DEBATE

Working Women: Strength in Numbers

Katha Pollitt
BEAT THE DEVIL

The Right to Remain Naked?

Alexander Cockburn
DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR

Nobel Peace Sparks War

Patricia J. Williams
LOOKOUT

Obama's Bad Influence

Naomi Klein

Nov. 7, 2009

November 7, 2009

An Afternoon With British Journalist Andy Worthington New York, NY

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Books & The Arts

Reviews, essays, poems and more

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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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The End of the Story?

Lars T. Lih : Archie Brown's account of the high politics of communism's collapse is Kremlinology without the guesswork.
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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
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At Least, At Most

Charles Taylor : With his plain, weather-beaten prose, Don Carpenter was a good enough novelist not to have to prove it.
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Empire Falls

Ronald Grigor Suny : The story of communism's rise and fall in Eastern Europe is a tale of two revolutions.
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End-of-Self Help

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?
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The Last Yugoslav

Richard Byrne : When Yugoslavia disintegrated, so too did the film career of Dusan Makavejev.
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The First Counter-revolutionary

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.
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A City Unbottled

Joy Connolly : In The Fires of Vesuvius, Mary Beard unearths the seedier realities of the Roman social and political experience.
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Linguistic Currency

Ange Mlinko : In an information economy, tiny asymmetries in language comprehension translate into vast profits--and large-scale collapses.