Nation Topics - States | The Nation

What does democracy look like? Try a grassroots campaign organized by ordinary citizens to recall their union-busting governor.

Contrary to the spin, New York’s new tax plan privileges millionaires at the expense of the 99 percent.

Across the country, the Republican party is trying to make it harder for the Democrats’ core constituencies to vote.

The Republicans’ dramatic overreach in states from Wisconsin to Maine has created openings for substantial Democratic victories in unexpected territory.

The unions and Democrats came up just one seat short in a tumultuous uphill battle to take control of the state Senate, but was what happened a victory or a defeat?

The threat of Arizona-style laws has strengthened pro-immigrant coalitions in unlikely places.

The fight to counter LePage’s extremism is gaining support not only among progressives in the state but within the Republican Party too.

It took opportunistic politicians and ridiculous, shameful language on religious exemptions, but gay and lesbian New Yorkers can finally tie the knot.

South Carolinians are beginning to feel duped by their new governor’s cronyism.