Slide Show: Reader Photos from the Rally to Restore Sanity Slide Show: Reader Photos from the Rally to Restore Sanity
One day before Halloween and three days before what will be a pivotal midterm election, the politically engaged, the politically blasé, pot-smoking seniors, families, hipste…
Nov 1, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: The Democrats Are the Real Party of Women Slide Show: The Democrats Are the Real Party of Women
Republicans may have touted 2010 as their own “Year of the Woman,” and recent polling suggests that women voters, traditionally a Democratic stronghold, may favor Repub…
Oct 29, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: 2010 Ballot Initiatives: The Good, the Bad and the Crazy Slide Show: 2010 Ballot Initiatives: The Good, the Bad and the Crazy
In an election dominated by the outsized personalities of a few Tea Partiers, voters’ opportunities to engage in direct democracy—that is, to vote on ballot initiatives…
Oct 25, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: The GOP’s Worst Ideas Slide Show: The GOP’s Worst Ideas
Montana’s GOP is also calling for the outlawing of homosexuality—supporting the arrest and incarceration of people whose only “crime” is their sexual orient…
Oct 13, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: 10/10/10 Events from Around the World Slide Show: 10/10/10 Events from Around the World
On Sunday, October 10, people at 7347 events in 188 countries celebrated 350.org‘s 10/10/10 Global Work Party by implementing small-scale climate solutions and urging governm…
Oct 11, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: November Races for Progressives to Watch Slide Show: November Races for Progressives to Watch
Sharron Angle’s attempt to oust Nevada Senator Harry Reid is one of the tightest and ugliest races this year, complete with real-life brawling. Left-leaning voters are disapp…
Oct 7, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: One Nation Working Together March Slide Show: One Nation Working Together March
On Saturday, October 2, exactly one month before voters head to the polls for the midterm elections, tens of thousands of progressive activists from across the country converged at…
Oct 4, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century, Part 2 Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century, Part 2
This is the second of three slide shows detailing the lives and legacies of the fifty most influential progressives of the twentieth century. Here, read Peter Dreier's introduction to the series. Here are the first and third slide shows. Click here to nominate the American progressives you think made the biggest difference in the twentieth century—and the activists, advocates and politicians who are already defining the twenty-first.
Sep 17, 2010 / Photo Essay / Peter Dreier
Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century
Go here to read Peter Dreier's introduction to this series detailing the lives and legacies of the fifty most influential progressives of the twentieth century. Go here to see the eleven reader-selected American progressives who Nation readers think made the biggest difference in the twentieth century—and the activists, advocates and politicians who are already defining the twenty-first.
Sep 16, 2010 / Photo Essay / Peter Dreier
Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century, Part 3 Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century, Part 3
This is the last of three slide shows detailing the lives and legacies of the fifty most influential progressives of the twentieth century. Here, read Peter Dreier's introduction to the series. Here are the first and second slide shows. Click here to nominate the American progressives you think made the biggest difference in the twentieth century—and the activists, advocates and politicians who are already defining the twenty-first.
Sep 15, 2010 / Photo Essay / Peter Dreier