Nation Topics - Kentucky | The Nation

Antigovernment zealots and biblical literalists are driving the race for 2012's Republican presidential nomination.

I may have been delusional about my golf game, but not about Frank Beard's.

John Nichols on Wisconsin’s war on workers, Molly O’Toole on the launch of US Uncut

A harmful coal extraction technique has sparked a growing movement across the central Appalachian region.

Elizabeth Hardwick found New York's jittery impermanence and inchoate density to be an obstacle for the fiction writer.

If Republicans had their way, citizenship in America would become pay-to-play.

The next Congress will see terror in everything.

On a night when Republicans pulled off the largest shift in party power since 1938, they also seemed, paradoxically, to be an endangered species.

The most significant threats may come from the state level: Republicans picked up several governorships, and the Affordable Care Act requires the cooperation of states to set up their own insurance exchanges.

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