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What Coakley's Defeat Means for Healthcare Reform (Healthcare Policy, Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

Healthcare is in jeopardy, but it's not dead--especially if Democrats drag their feet on swearing in Brown.

Lindsay Beyerstein

Coakley's Loss: Pie in the President's Face (Barack Obama, Campaigns and Elections, States, Senate, Politics)

Martha Coakley's loss in Massachusetts put on display the monumental miscalculations by which Obama has governed.

William Greider

What Massachusetts Got Right (Barack Obama, Healthcare Policy, Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

Obama's opportunistic search for win-win solutions to our healthcare concerns and our larger economic problems is leading to a lose-lose outcome for the president and the country.

Robert Scheer

The Nation Interviews David Plouffe (Barack Obama, Campaigns and Elections, The Left, Politics)

In an exclusive interview with The Nation, David Plouffe, former campaign manager of Obama for America, talks healthcare, messaging, and organizing after election day.

Ari Melber

Plouffe Counters Obama's Healthcare Critics (Barack Obama, Campaigns and Elections, The Left, Politics)

In an exclusive interview with The Nation, David Plouffe, former campaign manager of Obama for America, talks healthcare, messaging, and organizing after election day.

Ari Melber

Election Tea Leaves (US Politics, Gubernatorial Campaigns and Elections, Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

What did we learn from the off-year elections?

John Nichols

Slide Show: The Nation's 2009 Elections (Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

GOP Shuns Palin; Will Obama Help Dems? (Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

Nation blogger Melissa Harris-Lacewell on the GOP's love/hate relationship with Sarah Palin, and Democratic dynamics since Obama's victory in 2008.

The Rachel Maddow Show

Media Misses Mark on Truman's Election (Historical Events, Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

The only person in 1948 who thought Truman had a chance in 1948 was Harry, and even he wasn't all that convinced.

The Editors

Fair Elections Now! (Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

The moment is ripe for major campaign-finance reform.

Nick Nyhart and David Donnelly

Blogs

America Gets Primaried

John Nichols

The government shutdown is all about electoral politics—particularly the gerrymandering of Republican districts and primaries that make compromise impossible.

October 1, 2013

Christine Quinn’s Meteoric Fall: 2008 All Over Again?

Emily Douglas

How did the straight, white guy win the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City?

September 11, 2013

Mike Bloomberg and the 'Fortunate Ones' Versus Bill de Blasio

John Nichols

The mayor accuses the front-runner to succeed him of waging a “class warfare and racist” campaign. Why? Because de Blasio wants billionaires to pay more taxes.

September 8, 2013

Democracy Disenfranchised: Detroit's Next Mayor Won't Be Allowed to Govern

John Nichols

Michigan’s Republican governor has seized control of Detroit—and there’s a lot more at stake than one city’s balance sheet.

August 7, 2013

Big Media Story Isn't Bezos and the Post, It's the RNC Threatening CNN, NBC

John Nichols

Rich guys buy newspapers. Often. But when Reince Priebus makes programming demands on major networks, that's a real measure of the corruption of our democratic discourse.

August 5, 2013

Media Yawn at Barbara Buono, the Only Dem Willing to Take On Chris Christie

Leslie Savan

But they heart the Gov, even as his most very special election suppresses the vote.

June 11, 2013

How to Make Voting Easier

Ari Berman

On the twentieth anniversary of the National Voter Registration Act, voting rights are under attack

May 20, 2013

Washington Misses the Point on the Tea Party and the IRS

Rick Perlstein

How do you travel from a tax-exempt “non-political” Tea Party rally to a political one? You walk across a park.