Activism

Professors to Grad Students: Focus on Studies, Not Wages

Professors to Grad Students: Focus on Studies, Not Wages Professors to Grad Students: Focus on Studies, Not Wages

Professors just don’t get why graduate students deserve labor unions, revealing a dangerous myopia about how academia works in the age of austerity.

Dec 4, 2013 / Rick Perlstein

Starving for Justice

Starving for Justice Starving for Justice

From California to Israel, hunger strikes are erupting around the world—because they work.

Dec 4, 2013 / Feature / David Mizner

Hacktivists on Trial

Hacktivists on Trial Hacktivists on Trial

Prosecutors are warping the law to throw activist hackers like Aaron Swartz behind bars for years.

Dec 4, 2013 / Feature / Peter Ludlow

Fast Food Strikes Hit 100 Cities Thursday

Fast Food Strikes Hit 100 Cities Thursday Fast Food Strikes Hit 100 Cities Thursday

Workers are demanding $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.

Dec 4, 2013 / Allison Kilkenny

How Ivy League Universities Are Failing Us on Climate Change

How Ivy League Universities Are Failing Us on Climate Change How Ivy League Universities Are Failing Us on Climate Change

Despite widespread student organizing, university presidents are still reluctant to divest from fossil fuels. 

Dec 4, 2013 / Laura Flanders

Eradicating AIDS

Eradicating AIDS Eradicating AIDS

We’ve come so far in the struggle against AIDS, but the most marginalized in society are still suffering.

Dec 3, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Swiss Activists: Let’s Cap CEO Pay

Swiss Activists: Let’s Cap CEO Pay Swiss Activists: Let’s Cap CEO Pay

An initiative to do just that failed at the ballot box, but gave us all some welcome inspiration.

Dec 2, 2013 / Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati

Twenty-seven Questions for Stephen F. Cohen from Russia’s Leading Opposition Newspaper

Twenty-seven Questions for Stephen F. Cohen from Russia’s Leading Opposition Newspaper Twenty-seven Questions for Stephen F. Cohen from Russia’s Leading Opposition Newspaper

Questions from Novaya Gazeta on the Soviet Union, segregation and Russia today.

Dec 2, 2013 / Stephen F. Cohen

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Pardoning the Scottsboro Boys, Eighty Years Too Late

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Pardoning the Scottsboro Boys, Eighty Years Too Late This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Pardoning the Scottsboro Boys, Eighty Years Too Late

The Nation immediately recognized Scottsboro as a vital front in the battle for civil rights.

Nov 30, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

On #GivingTuesday, Giving’s Never Been Easier or Cheaper for Global Corporations

On #GivingTuesday, Giving’s Never Been Easier or Cheaper for Global Corporations On #GivingTuesday, Giving’s Never Been Easier or Cheaper for Global Corporations

The massive corporations taking part in Giving Tuesday aren’t anonymous. They want positive pr, and for that they deserve serious scrutiny.

Nov 30, 2013 / Laura Flanders

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