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November 23, 2009 Issue
Elizabeth Méndez Berry on DC's new green shoots, the editors on Doctorow's newspaper, Pamela Samuelson on the Google Books settlement.
Cover art by: Cover photograph by Lucas Jackson/Reuters, design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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Editorial
For the first time, family reunification for same-sex binational couples is being included in broader immigration reform.
Greg Kaufmann
The Google Books settlement is a forward-looking commercial joint venture that far exceeds the scope of the class-action lawsuit.
Pamela Samuelson
The filibuster has become a cancer growing inside the world's greatest deliberative body.
Chris Hayes
What did we learn from the off-year elections?
John Nichols
Why do we need newspapers? They help make humans of us.
The Editors
Would Illinois rather keep an innocent man behind bars than admit a mistake?
The Editors
Building a new political order will take more than one election.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Column
"Blessed are the peacemakers" certainly applies to Mikhail Gorbachev, a man not honored enough for the example he set.
Robert Scheer
Donald Sterling was just obligated to pay out the largest settlement ever obtained by the government in a housing discrimination case involving apartment rentals.
Dave Zirin
Europeans haven't stopped looking for alternatives to capitalism.
Gary Younge
The next generation of right-wing journalists are largely apparatchiks.
Eric Alterman
Feature
Mandatory mediation programs are preventing foreclosures across the country. Congress should do more to support them.
Pat Garofalo
Armed drone aircraft in Afghanistan and Pakistan are only the latest wonder weapon to promise us the world.
Tom Engelhardt
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
The commemorations marking the fall of the Wall were joyous. But divisions still plague unified Germany.
Paul Hockenos
Under the Ft. Hood headlines, a stressed-out Army pushes stressed-out soldiers back into the war zones.
Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare
Charles Pugh's sexual orientation took a back seat to Detroit voters' concerns about the economy and unemployment.
Matthew Wolfe
How well will Representative Barney Frank's proposed regulatory reform legislation address the "too big to fail" problem?
Mike Konczal
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
Can the Republican Party survive without the enthusiasm of its young supporters?
Alana Levinson
Going abroad is no longer just a school-time pleasure cruise. It's an employment opportunity.
Jeanette Blalock-Davis
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 looming presence of debt collectors makes high school an even harder.
Aleena Durrani
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
The recession has been a rite of passage for Generation Y, who are now more than prepared for the struggles of adulthood.
Christine Chang
There is no better way to teach someone the value of a dollar or about financial responsibility than a recession.
Eric Siguenza
Everything's a gamble. The American Dream is about waiting to get lucky now.
Christopher Criswell
The winners of the fourth annual Nation Student Writing Competition addressed how the recession has affected them.
The Nation
Since California's Prop 8, gay activists of a new generation have jumped into the fray.
Christopher Lisotta
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
Young people have lost 2.5 million jobs to the crisis, making them the hardest-hit age group.
Lizzy Ratner
The country's oldest student association has its eyes on the prize--student aid reform.
Te-Ping Chen
Nadine Padilla organized for Obama in Native American communities. Now she's passing her skills on to others.
Elizabeth Méndez Berry
Some hardcore Obama campaign volunteers find rewarding jobs outside the administration.
Elizabeth Méndez Berry
The 2008 election galvanized young voters and organizers. One year later, where are they?
Elizabeth Méndez Berry
A group of twentysomethings from San Francisco took an unlikely path to jobs within the Obama administration.
Elizabeth Méndez Berry
Books & the Arts
Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Alexander Sokurov's The Sun
Stuart Klawans
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
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