We Can Reopen Schools if We Make the City the Classroom We Can Reopen Schools if We Make the City the Classroom
Radical education ideas from the 1960s and ’70s can help us safely teach children during a pandemic.
Jul 21, 2020 / StudentNation / Nikhil Goyal
When ‘Law and Order’ Means Maximum Chaos When ‘Law and Order’ Means Maximum Chaos
As federal agents brutalize protesters in Portland, Trump threatens to unleash the same tactics across the country.
Jul 21, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
Trump’s 2020 Campaign Strategy Is Already an Impressive Train Wreck Trump’s 2020 Campaign Strategy Is Already an Impressive Train Wreck
Another week of making things up, skirting the law, and talking about beans.
Jul 21, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow
How Will US Warfare Survive the Pandemic? How Will US Warfare Survive the Pandemic?
The Pentagon is finding it difficult to adapt to a world in which the biggest threats to American security are biological, not military.
Jul 21, 2020 / Michael T. Klare
Trump Has Destroyed the Fauci Protocol Trump Has Destroyed the Fauci Protocol
For decades, the venerated physician had a successful formula for balancing politics with science. Then he met Donald Trump.
Jul 20, 2020 / Jeet Heer
You’re Only As Free as You Are Wealthy You’re Only As Free as You Are Wealthy
Without real economic freedom, Americans cling to petty acts of refusal.
Jul 20, 2020 / Ed Burmila
We’re in a Pandemic. Cancel Student Debt Now. We’re in a Pandemic. Cancel Student Debt Now.
Student borrowers say that congressional relief has been woefully insufficient. And they’re terrified facing its end in September.
Jul 20, 2020 / StudentNation / Veronica Irwin
In Quarantine, on the Plains of Colombia In Quarantine, on the Plains of Colombia
A photographer captures a child’s fears and hopes on a ranch on the Llanos.
Jul 20, 2020 / Photo Essay / Juanita Escobar, The Nation, and Magnum Foundation
Never Mind the Rising Death Toll—the Trump Show Must Go On! Never Mind the Rising Death Toll—the Trump Show Must Go On!
While Trump rages against Covid-19 testing and air conditioning, his administration orchestrates a data grab to help cook the pandemic books.
Jul 17, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
Schools: To Open or Not to Open? That Is Not the Question. Schools: To Open or Not to Open? That Is Not the Question.
The question is: Will the US government provide the safety net and wealth redistribution necessary to support life in this country?
Jul 16, 2020 / StudentNation / Rhea Boyd