This Week in Poverty: Revealing the Real TANF This Week in Poverty: Revealing the Real TANF
The TANF program expires in March, and the American people need to know what it’s all about before it’s renewed.
Feb 8, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
Aaron Swartz’s DC Memorial: Radical Brings Bipartisanship to Washington Aaron Swartz’s DC Memorial: Radical Brings Bipartisanship to Washington
This week, friends and colleagues of Aaron Swartz gathered to remember the late activist—and produced a ritual unlike anything Washington has seen in ages.
Feb 8, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/8/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/8/13)
This week, Nation interns tackle media bias. What is "sharia" law? What's missing in common debates about "labor"? How do white male tech writers ...
Feb 8, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Judith Butler’s Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS Judith Butler’s Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS
Despite a campaign to silence them, philosophers Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti spoke at Brooklyn College on Thursday night. In an exclusive, The Nation presents the text of Butl...
Feb 7, 2013 / Judith Butler
Save the USPS Save the USPS
The USPS's financial "crisis" has been entirely manufactured by critics cynically hoping to privatize the post office.
Feb 7, 2013 / NationAction
Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and the Power of Being an Ally Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and the Power of Being an Ally
A trip to Philadelphia, Mississippi, forced me to confront how far I’d go for someone else.
Feb 7, 2013 / Nona Willis Aronowitz
Infiltrating ICE: How Undocumented Activists Are Organizing on the Inside Infiltrating ICE: How Undocumented Activists Are Organizing on the Inside
Undocumented activist Marco Saavedra talks with The Nation's Francis Reynolds and Aura Bogado about the struggle to crack open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention cent...
Feb 7, 2013 / Francis Reynolds and Aura Bogado
Leo Gerard Is Rising Leo Gerard Is Rising
To send labor supporters into their final week of preparing for One Billion Rising, United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard recorded this special video message.
Feb 6, 2013 / Laura Flanders
NYU Divest Hosts Bill McKibben, Faces Rebuff From Administration NYU Divest Hosts Bill McKibben, Faces Rebuff From Administration
The environmental activist and self-described “professional bummer-out-er" spoke at Cooper Union's historic Great Hall last night.
Feb 6, 2013 / StudentNation / Melissa Cronin and StudentNation
The Dignity Campaign’s Alternative Vision for Immigration Reform The Dignity Campaign’s Alternative Vision for Immigration Reform
Rejecting proposals to tighten borders, a network of grassroots groups calls for reform based on “human, labor and civil rights for all.”
Feb 6, 2013 / David Bacon