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Sarah Silverman Supports Obama
Countdown : The feisty comedian tells Keith Olbermann why young Jewish voters should convince their grandparents to back Obama in Florida.
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Obama's iSuccess
Ari Melber: The Obama campaign's below-the-radar use of the web to register new voters could change the game for Democrats and Republicans.
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Suppressing the Youth Vote?
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Net Backlash Hinders Bailout
Ari Melber: With a surge of angry e-mail that sent Congressional servers into meltdown, taxpayers stormed their way into the bailout debate.
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Homer Simpson vs. Electronic Voting
YouTube : The Simpsons character encounters a corrupted electronic voting machine: 'This doesn't happen in America! Maybe in Ohio, but not in America!'
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Obama's Youth Movement
Peter Dreier: Young voters could be the key to victory for Obama and Democratic Congressional candidates. Here's how they're changing the electoral map.
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The End of Bubba Dominance
Chris Bowers: No matter who wins in November, demographic trends indicate that the era of backlash politics is over.
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America Needs a New New Deal
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Eric Schlosser: We should apply FDR's principles of relief, reform and reconstruction to our current financial crisis.
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Blood in the Caucasus
Katrina vanden Heuvel: It's time for the US to dissolve its cold war military alliances and develop realistic new policies toward Russia.
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Progressives in the Obama Moment
Robert L. Borosage & Katrina vanden Heuvel: Here's how progressives can ensure Obama's success.
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Solzhenitsyn's Life and Our Times
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Despite the controversies he aroused in the West and in Russia, Solzhenitsyn remains above all else a writer who bore witness to Soviet society's long-censored suffering.
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Woman in the House
Katrina vanden Heuvel: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks about politics, sexism, impeachment, Obama, and her own personal VP pick.
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Pushing Limits--and Proud of It
Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Nation has a long history of publishing images even some of our staunchest fans find offensive. Just ask our cartoonists.
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Democracy on the Net
Katrina vanden Heuvel: An online guide to organizations working to build a more perfect union.
Demos.org: A nonpartisan policy research and advocacy organization focusing on increasing electoral participation and civic engagement--including enforcing national voting standards and enacting election day registration.
DC Vote: DC Vote works to secure full voting rights in Congress for the disenfranchised residents of the District of Columbia.
Public Campaign: A network of national and state campaign reform efforts to dramatically reduce the role of big special-interest money in our politics.
Brennan Center for Justice: The center's work includes voting rights, redistricting reform and restoring the vote to people with felony convictions.
Common Cause: A nonpartisan advocacy organization committed to honest, open and accountable government as well as encouraging citizen participation.
Change-Congress.org: Internet guru Lawrence Lessig's new organization is using online tools to build a national movement to end corruption in Congress.
Free Press: Launched in 2002 by media scholar Robert McChesney, journalist (and The Nation's DC correspondent) John Nichols and Josh Silver, it is the largest media reform organization in the United States.
Sentencing Project: Focuses on restoring the vote to felons.
WhyTuesday.org: Uses online tools to increase voter turnout and participation. Its primary focus is to end elections held during the middle of the workweek.
New America Foundation: Its political reform program promotes innovative changes such as instant runoff voting, proportional representation and free airtime.
Center for Responsive Politics: A nonpartisan research group that tracks money in politics and its effect on elections and public policy.
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