Voters Reject Abortion Bans in South Dakota, Colorado. Voters Reject Abortion Bans in South Dakota, Colorado.
More Good News From Last Night: In the last few months I wrote about calls to action against two draconian state referendums intended to deprive women of their legally-guaranteed...
Nov 5, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Rahm Emanuel: Face of Change? Rahm Emanuel: Face of Change?
Clinton's NAFTA-backing insider is in the running for Obama chief of staff.
Nov 5, 2008 / John Nichols
Stop Gates Stop Gates
Barack Obama will be getting off on the wrong foot, to put it mildly, if he does what seems likely now: allow Robert Gates to stay on a secretary of defense. For reasons that are...
Nov 5, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Morning Again in America Morning Again in America
Goodbye, Pax Americana--and all the neoconservative economic and political ideologies that have dominated our public life.
Nov 5, 2008 / Column / Robert Scheer
UN: Hope that America Rejoins the World UN: Hope that America Rejoins the World
Quiet relief, an undercurrent of caution and hope for a new approach to human rights, the environment and the problems of the poor.
Nov 5, 2008 / Barbara Crossette
California Initiatives: Go Figure California Initiatives: Go Figure
In California's wild world of ballot initiatives, the chickens defeated the egg factory owners, and an anti-abortion parental notification proposition was defeated. Prop. 8, the b...
Nov 5, 2008 / Jon Wiener
Barack Obama’s Many Majorities Barack Obama’s Many Majorities
"If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show," wrote the poet Walt Whitman on the occasion of a distant election, "I'd name the still-small voice vi...
Nov 5, 2008 / John Nichols
Life After Election Day Life After Election Day
No more Todd, no more Track, no more Bristol.
No more Jon Stewart.
No more Colbert Report.
Nov 5, 2008 / Jon Wiener
Transformational Presidency Transformational Presidency
Four years ago we gathered at The Nation to watch the election returns.Around midnight we began to weep. But we had to put out an issue thenext day. So, through the grim night and...
Nov 5, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tracking Voter Problems: Part Three Tracking Voter Problems: Part Three
WASHINGTON, DC -- From Nation intern Emma Dumain, comes the finaldispatch from the Election Protection command center: In the second press briefing of the day here at the Electio...
Nov 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes