Don’t Be So Quick to Defend Woodrow Wilson Don’t Be So Quick to Defend Woodrow Wilson
It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.
Nov 24, 2015 / Greg Grandin
WANTED: Political Power for Climate Justice WANTED: Political Power for Climate Justice
Movement leaders identify their goals as political, but they don’t see the movement as having the political power to achieve those goals.
Nov 16, 2015 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin
The University of North Carolina’s New President Should Scare Anyone Who Cares About Higher Ed The University of North Carolina’s New President Should Scare Anyone Who Cares About Higher Ed
Margaret Spellings is a Karl Rove protégé who calls students “customers,” and now she’s in charge of the state’s prestigious public university system.
Nov 16, 2015 / StudentNation / Zoë Carpenter
Don’t Tell the Student Protesters at Yale to ‘Grow Up’ Don’t Tell the Student Protesters at Yale to ‘Grow Up’
They are already plenty grown up. It’s their adult critics who are behaving like children.
Nov 13, 2015 / Bruce Shapiro
Steven Salaita: I Will Always Condemn Injustice, No Matter the State of My Employment Steven Salaita: I Will Always Condemn Injustice, No Matter the State of My Employment
The embattled professor reflects on the trials of free speech, Zionism, and what it means to reach a settlement.
Nov 13, 2015 / Steven Salaita
Why Isn’t Yale As Radical as Mizzou? Why Isn’t Yale As Radical as Mizzou?
University of Missouri students pulled all the right levers for structural change. Why hasn’t Yale done the same?
Nov 11, 2015 / StudentNation / Daniel Moattar
3 Lessons From University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe’s Resignation 3 Lessons From University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe’s Resignation
The administrators created a world in which universities revolve socially, politically, and economically around the exploited labor of football. Now let them reap what they sow.
Nov 9, 2015 / Dave Zirin
Why Does Anybody Play Football Anymore? Why Does Anybody Play Football Anymore?
Football has never been more popular. And it has never felt less like a game.
Nov 3, 2015 / Dave Zirin
A Short History of Cops Terrorizing Students A Short History of Cops Terrorizing Students
The assault at Spring Valley runs deeper than one bad cop—it’s the latest product of the school-to-prison pipeline.
Oct 28, 2015 / Alex S. Vitale
Teaching While Poor: Adjunct Professors and the Fight for Fair Wages Teaching While Poor: Adjunct Professors and the Fight for Fair Wages
Across the country, adjunct professors are being exploited for profit, and many of them have had enough of it.
Oct 26, 2015 / Brave New Films