Saving Homes With Mandatory Mediation

Mandatory mediation programs are preventing foreclosures across the country. Congress should do more to support them.

Pat Garofalo

Drone Race to a Known Future

Armed drone aircraft in Afghanistan and Pakistan are only the latest wonder weapon to promise us the world.

Tom Engelhardt

Blackwater Attempted to Bribe Iraqi Officials

Top Blackwater staff authorized attempted bribes of Iraqi officials in the wake of the 2007 Nisour Square massacre, the New York Times has reported.

Jeremy Scahill

Letter From Berlin: Twenty Years After

The commemorations marking the fall of the Wall were joyous. But divisions still plague unified Germany.

Paul Hockenos

Preparing Undeployables for the Afghan Front

Under the Ft. Hood headlines, a stressed-out Army pushes stressed-out soldiers back into the war zones.

Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare

Detroit Elects Openly Gay City Council President

Charles Pugh's sexual orientation took a back seat to Detroit voters' concerns about the economy and unemployment.

Matthew Wolfe

Fixing Too Big To Fail

How well will Representative Barney Frank's proposed regulatory reform legislation address the "too big to fail" problem?

Mike Konczal

Save the Children, in Zimbabwe and at Home

What is poverty? One volunteer's perspective shows us it's all relative. A finalist in The Nation's Student Writing Contest 2009.

Ophelia Hu

Conscience of a Young Conservative

Can the Republican Party survive without the enthusiasm of its young supporters?

Alana Levinson

The New Okies: Brain Drain in Class of ’09

Going abroad is no longer just a school-time pleasure cruise. It's an employment opportunity.

Jeanette Blalock-Davis

Graduating in the Recession

A struggling young journalist is forced to take up a job on the side delivering pizza, but with tips dwindling, he wonders if it's really worth it.

Michael Cohen

The Weight of Our Problems

The looming presence of debt collectors makes high school an even harder.

Aleena Durrani

Battered But Never Broken

After fifteen years as a production manager, one man is now forced to haul trash out of abandoned public housing. Instead of panicking, he is turning the crisis into an opportunity...

Jacob Stokes

Economic Adaptation

The recession has been a rite of passage for Generation Y, who are now more than prepared for the struggles of adulthood.

Christine Chang

The Recession Epidemic

There is no better way to teach someone the value of a dollar or about financial responsibility than a recession.

Eric Siguenza

Boston Bound

Everything's a gamble. The American Dream is about waiting to get lucky now.

Christopher Criswell

Tales of the Great Recession

The winners of the fourth annual Nation Student Writing Competition addressed how the recession has affected them.

The Nation

Stonewall 2.0

Since California's Prop 8, gay activists of a new generation have jumped into the fray.

Christopher Lisotta

The State of Youth Organizing

The Nation asked leading youth organizers to suggest specific ways the Obama administration could help them mobilize the most diverse and socially progressive generation.

Kristina Rizga

Generation Recession

Young people have lost 2.5 million jobs to the crisis, making them the hardest-hit age group.

Lizzy Ratner

Back to the USSA

The country's oldest student association has its eyes on the prize--student aid reform.

Te-Ping Chen

Obama for America’s Gallup Pol

Nadine Padilla organized for Obama in Native American communities. Now she's passing her skills on to others.

Elizabeth Méndez Berry

DC’s New Green Shoots

Some hardcore Obama campaign volunteers find rewarding jobs outside the administration.

Elizabeth Méndez Berry

The Obama Generation, Revisited

The 2008 election galvanized young voters and organizers. One year later, where are they?

Elizabeth Méndez Berry

The Domino Effect

A group of twentysomethings from San Francisco took an unlikely path to jobs within the Obama administration.

Elizabeth Méndez Berry

Survivors

Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Alexander Sokurov's The Sun

Stuart Klawans

Gladwell for Dummies

Malcolm Gladwell's success as a brand-name thinker rests on the assumption that the unexamined life is the only sort his readers could be living.

Maureen Tkacik

Early Capitalism

Joe Wenderoth