Brentin Mock: How the Right Intimidates Voters of Color Away From the Polls Brentin Mock: How the Right Intimidates Voters of Color Away From the Polls
You may have never heard of True the Vote, but the organization has major plans for upcoming elections across the country.
May 10, 2012 / The Nation
The Fight for Marriage Equality Continues The Fight for Marriage Equality Continues
President Obama may be the first president to endorse same-sex marriage, but we still have a long way to go before the Defense of Marriage Act and statewide bans are repealed.
May 10, 2012 / Press Room
Join Our Live Chat on Testing and Education Reform! Join Our Live Chat on Testing and Education Reform!
On May 17th at 5pm, Nation readers are invited to participate in a live chat on the role of testing in education reform with writer Dana Goldstein, teacher and blogger Mark Anderso...
May 10, 2012 / The Nation
A Congressional Push to End All Fossil Fuel Subsidies A Congressional Push to End All Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Progressive legislators are mounting the first push to completely eliminate subsidies to the oil, gas and coal industries.
May 10, 2012 / George Zornick
Students March for Labor Rights in New Haven Students March for Labor Rights in New Haven
More than a thousand students, labor union members and community activists flooded Yale’s campus and downtown New Haven in a call for the University and the city to provide...
May 10, 2012 / StudentNation / Ben Prawdzik
How Mandatory Sentencing Laws Are Sending Juveniles to Prison for Life How Mandatory Sentencing Laws Are Sending Juveniles to Prison for Life
Why is a first-world country imprisoning its children for life?
May 10, 2012 / Francis Reynolds
What If Kobe Bryant Were an Imprisoned Palestinian Soccer Player? What If Kobe Bryant Were an Imprisoned Palestinian Soccer Player?
Mahmoud Sarsak, Palestinian national team soccer player, is dying on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison. The sports world should say something.
May 10, 2012 / Dave Zirin
Why the Friendship Segregation on HBO’s ‘Girls’ Speaks to a Bigger Problem Why the Friendship Segregation on HBO’s ‘Girls’ Speaks to a Bigger Problem
For all our talk about the multiracialism of the millennial generation, the lack of interracial social connections is more than a coincidence.
May 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Salamishah Tillet
Hope and Hesitation in Obama’s Sudden Conversion Hope and Hesitation in Obama’s Sudden Conversion
Once again President Barack Obama has come tantalizingly close to being terrific.
May 10, 2012 / Robert Scheer
Help Defend the Vote Help Defend the Vote
As many as 5 million eligible voters could meet difficulties voting this Election Day due to new, imposing voter laws. Here's how to push back.
May 10, 2012 / NationAction