Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/15/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/15/13)
This week, articles critique the spotty broadband coverage in the United States, our complacent foreign policy in the Middle East, the idealistic education proposals in Barack Obam...
Feb 15, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Oh Yoko! Ms. Ono at 80 Oh Yoko! Ms. Ono at 80
Yoko’s 80th birthday is a day to celebrate her art, music and activism.
Feb 15, 2013 / Jon Wiener
Sanders, Boxer Outline ‘Gold Standard’ Climate Bill Sanders, Boxer Outline ‘Gold Standard’ Climate Bill
A price on carbon would fund investments in clean energy under the new plan.
Feb 14, 2013 / George Zornick
Hamas? What Hamas? Hamas? What Hamas?
Liberals concerned with Israel often miss the inconvenient fact of the radical Palestinian organization's human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip. Reed Richardson also writes abo...
Feb 14, 2013 / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
President Obama: Halt the Deportation of Parents President Obama: Halt the Deportation of Parents
President Obama's State of the Union trumpeted comprehensive immigration reform but what immigrant rights activists really wanted to hear was a promise to halt further deportat...
Feb 14, 2013 / NationAction
Going to the Bank Going to the Bank
Using a LENS to look at SENSELESSNESS?
Feb 14, 2013 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
White People Have to Give Up Racism White People Have to Give Up Racism
It's the only real solution to deaths like those of Trayvon Martin and Rodgrio Diaz.
Feb 14, 2013 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Nothing New Under the Wingnut Sun: A Coming Preschool Backlash? Nothing New Under the Wingnut Sun: A Coming Preschool Backlash?
In his State of the Union, Obama naively proposed universal preschool as a conservative idea. Conservatives will not agree.
Feb 14, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
Teachers Revolt Teachers Revolt
One of Seattle’s top secondary institutions, Garfield High School, has a mutiny on its hands.
Feb 14, 2013 / StudentNation / Elana Leopold and StudentNation
One Billion Rising One Billion Rising
After breaking the silence around physical violence against women, will the global mobilization take on the economy?
Feb 14, 2013 / Laura Flanders