Activism

NYU Divest Meets With Senior Administrators, Calls For Climate Justice

NYU Divest Meets With Senior Administrators, Calls For Climate Justice NYU Divest Meets With Senior Administrators, Calls For Climate Justice

NYU’s Divest campaign met with senior university administrators, providing a faint glimpse of hope for a movement that’s been spreading quickly at other unive...

Apr 18, 2013 / StudentNation / Melissa Cronin and StudentNation

House of Horrors: On Domestic Violence

House of Horrors: On Domestic Violence House of Horrors: On Domestic Violence

America's military-masculinity complex is generating violence on a mass scale—at home.

Apr 18, 2013 / Erika Eichelberger

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (4/19/2013) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (4/19/2013)

As Glenn Greenwald and others have written, this week is a time for checking racial stereotypes. Elsewhere from Boston, as this week's Nation intern roundup indicates...

Apr 18, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

The Senate’s Drone and Trigger-Happy Immigration Bill

The Senate’s Drone and Trigger-Happy Immigration Bill The Senate’s Drone and Trigger-Happy Immigration Bill

Legal permanent residency and eventual citizenship will be conditional on expanded border security—including the use of drones.

Apr 17, 2013 / Aura Bogado

The Once and Future Harlem

The Once and Future Harlem The Once and Future Harlem

A sense of common destiny with Africa ebbs and flows in New York's gentrifying black enclave.

Apr 17, 2013 / Feature / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Welcome to the Gilded City of New York

Welcome to the Gilded City of New York Welcome to the Gilded City of New York

In the Age of Bloomberg, America’s most iconic big city is also its most unequal.

Apr 17, 2013 / Feature / The Editors

Resurrecting Brownsville

Resurrecting Brownsville Resurrecting Brownsville

In a neighborhood immune to gentrification, a different model of revitalization is required.

Apr 17, 2013 / Feature / Ginia Bellafante

Kent State Students Demand Debt Redress Kent State Students Demand Debt Redress

Kent State students are mobilizing today against excessive costs and bleak job prospects.

Apr 17, 2013 / StudentNation / Kyle McCarthy and StudentNation

Greg Kaufmann: After Sequestration, Where Will Poor Families Sleep?

Greg Kaufmann: After Sequestration, Where Will Poor Families Sleep? Greg Kaufmann: After Sequestration, Where Will Poor Families Sleep?

Housing programs are getting the budgetary knife—a crisis for seniors, people with disabilities and poor families.

Apr 17, 2013 / Press Room

Tell Your Senators to Preserve Background Checks in Gun Control Legislation

Tell Your Senators to Preserve Background Checks in Gun Control Legislation Tell Your Senators to Preserve Background Checks in Gun Control Legislation

Right now, Senator Tom Coburn is advancing a change to the rules regarding background checks that would undermine much of the bill's intent.

Apr 16, 2013 / NationAction

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