Nation Topics - Liberal Democrats | The Nation

The strange thing about last week’s Brussels compact is that it is irrelevant to the task at hand—avoiding collapse of the euro.

Ed Miliband has began to nudge his party in a new direction—a left populism that just might challenge Britain’s real rulers, in corporate boardrooms and in Parliament.

Liliana Segura on Obama's immigration policy, D.D. Guttenplan and Maria Margaronis on the UK's faltering Liberal Democrats, and Frank Askin on electoral reform in New Jersey.

The Labour Party's biggest challenge is the lack of a credible alternative to the Conservative-Liberal narrative of crisis and austerity.

Nick Clegg has taken the Liberal Democrats into government with the Tories, serving as deputy prime minister to David Cameron, a politician he has called "the con man of British politics." Where did it all go wrong?

The Tories want to make budget cuts fast and deep.

British voters are taking a hard look at the Conservative Party, and they don't like what they see.

Why do Americans trust Bush and the Republicans on national security issues?

So this is what it feels like to be in the political mainstream.

As the election nears, the weather is rotten and the glow is off "New Labour."