Slide Show: The Nation’s 2009 Elections Slide Show: The Nation’s 2009 Elections
The Nation uncovers interesting trends, rifts and potential problems progressives will need to confront in future elections.
Nov 4, 2009 / Photo Essay / The Nation
The Obama Youthquake: One Year Later The Obama Youthquake: One Year Later
One year after young voters and organizers helped propel President Obama to victory, are "Obama's youth" still active?
Nov 4, 2009 / The Nation Video
Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy
The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 US troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in ha...
Nov 4, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Marriage in Maine: Losing Forward Marriage in Maine: Losing Forward
Last night, in a voter referendum, Mainers narrowly, nail-bitingly voted to repeal the law extending marriage rights to same-sex couples, with the Bangor Daily News now reporting a...
Nov 4, 2009 / Emily Douglas
Looking Past Karzai Looking Past Karzai
Is the White House thinking about getting out of Afghanistan? Just as Hamlet's mother and his murderous uncle rushed to marry with unseemly haste, even before his slain father's ...
Nov 4, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
A Year Later, Obama Needs to Start Campaigning Again A Year Later, Obama Needs to Start Campaigning Again
MADISON, WI --One year ago Tuesday, Barack Obama redefined American electioneering to such an extent that it was possible to believe that the success of his transformational campa...
Nov 4, 2009 / John Nichols
Four Off-Year Election Scenarios Four Off-Year Election Scenarios
Yes, yes, we've all heard the "all-politics-is-local" bromide with regard to off-year elections. While it is no longer an operative, let alone true, statement – as the nationa...
Nov 4, 2009 / John Nichols
Bloomberg Wins, But Barely Bloomberg Wins, But Barely
Yes, of course, everyone was watching Virginia, New Jersey and upstate New York on Tuesday's off-year election night. But one of the most dramatic stories played out in New York ...
Nov 4, 2009 / John Nichols
The Obama Generation, Revisited The Obama Generation, Revisited
The 2008 election galvanized young voters and organizers. One year later, where are they?
Nov 4, 2009 / Feature / Elizabeth Méndez Berry
Linguistic Currency Linguistic Currency
In an information economy, tiny asymmetries in language comprehension translate into vast profits--and large-scale collapses.
Nov 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko