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Columbia Faculty Protests

Columbia University Has Lost Its Way Columbia University Has Lost Its Way

The Ivy League institution’s approach to the contract negotiations with its grad student workers reveals how it has evolved into a predatory business.

Jan 18, 2022 / StudentNation / Katherine Franke

Nation Poetry

Toward Bakersfield Toward Bakersfield

I Because the road comes without calling it, head low like it doesn’t want trouble but really does, and the bright cars, with faces like their owners, want to witness that trouble,…

Jan 18, 2022 / Poems / Brendan Constantine

If the Senate Fails to Act, Voting Is Not the Only Freedom on the Line

If the Senate Fails to Act, Voting Is Not the Only Freedom on the Line If the Senate Fails to Act, Voting Is Not the Only Freedom on the Line

The same state legislators who are attacking voting rights are pushing ever-more-extreme bans and restrictions on abortion rights and access.

Jan 18, 2022 / Mini Timmaraju

Lessons From Louise Glück

Lessons From Louise Glück Lessons From Louise Glück

A conversation with the poet and Nobel laureate about her career, teaching, her next book, and more.

Jan 18, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Sam Huber

How the Pandemic Threw Fuel on a Growing Housing Movement

How the Pandemic Threw Fuel on a Growing Housing Movement How the Pandemic Threw Fuel on a Growing Housing Movement

Organizers and activists hope the pandemic has changed how America thinks of housing for good.

Jan 18, 2022 / Feature / Bryce Covert

Fossil Fuel, Fuels Doom

Fossil Fuel, Fuels Doom Fossil Fuel, Fuels Doom

Oil companies spend millions to stop climate action.

Jan 17, 2022 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

5 Lessons From Hunter S. Thompson

5 Lessons From Hunter S. Thompson 5 Lessons From Hunter S. Thompson

Wisdom from the godfather of gonzo.

Jan 17, 2022 / Peter Richardson

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Members of Congress Shouldn’t Be Getting Rich From Trading Stocks Members of Congress Shouldn’t Be Getting Rich From Trading Stocks

Last year, over a hundred members of Congress bought and sold nearly $290 million in stocks and beat the market.

Jan 17, 2022 / Aída Chávez

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Unfinished Work of Abolishing Poverty

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Unfinished Work of Abolishing Poverty Martin Luther King Jr. and the Unfinished Work of Abolishing Poverty

Democrats failed to embrace his Freedom Budget for All Americans in the 1960s. That failure needs to be addressed today with a bold program to abolish poverty and injustice.

Jan 17, 2022 / John Nichols

George Floyd protest in Minneapolis

The Protest Movement and the Protest Government The Protest Movement and the Protest Government

No one acquainted with right-wing media can doubt that anger over the 2020 riots—in Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, Philadelphia, and elsewhere—fed the wildness of the January 6 riot.

Jan 14, 2022 / David Bromwich

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