Education

How the Largest Union Fight of 2021 Was Won

How the Largest Union Fight of 2021 Was Won How the Largest Union Fight of 2021 Was Won

The road to recognition was arduous for student researchers at the University of California.

Dec 17, 2021 / Jess Banks and Ahmed Akhtar

California School Board discusses critical race theory

Even in Blue States, Critical Race Theory Panic Is Spreading Even in Blue States, Critical Race Theory Panic Is Spreading

The GOP has been relentlessly hammering on the issue since the last presidential election, viewing it as the party’s way back into suburban voters’ good graces.

Dec 17, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky

Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren: Congress Must Expand the Supreme Court Elizabeth Warren: Congress Must Expand the Supreme Court

The Massachusetts senator explains why the current court is a threat to democracy—and offers the latest on Build Back Better and voting rights.

Dec 16, 2021 / Joan Walsh

Why Should I Change the Way I Talk?

Why Should I Change the Way I Talk? Why Should I Change the Way I Talk?

By switching between the accent I was raised with and the accent I am expected to have, I am silencing a part of myself.

Dec 15, 2021 / StudentNation / Meagan Zullo

View of the entrance to Julia Richman Education Complex High School on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York, N.Y.

To Reduce Inequality in Our Education System, Reduce Class Sizes To Reduce Inequality in Our Education System, Reduce Class Sizes

New York City has a rare opportunity to pass a hugely popular bill to shrink class sizes. So why are the mayor and the City Council speaker standing in its way?

Dec 9, 2021 / StudentNation / Leonie Haimson

Holiday Giving: Second Pandemic Winter Edition

Holiday Giving: Second Pandemic Winter Edition Holiday Giving: Second Pandemic Winter Edition

Republicans are on the move, and so are Covid and climate change—give now, before things get even worse!

Dec 9, 2021 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Flooding Climate Change Rice University

How Climate Change Threatens Colleges Across the Country How Climate Change Threatens Colleges Across the Country

We asked students to tell us how rising sea levels, forest fires, and flash floods impact their local communities.

Dec 2, 2021 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Standard Oil Meeting

If You Fund the Research, You Can Shape the World If You Fund the Research, You Can Shape the World

Before the Koch brothers, Standard Oil realized the power of universities to spread its free-market ideology and prevent the growth of socialism.

Dec 1, 2021 / Amy Westervelt

Fraternity Protest Rally

Protests Against Sexual Violence Have Overtaken College Campuses Protests Against Sexual Violence Have Overtaken College Campuses

This fall, student movements have formed at schools across the country to remove Betsy DeVos’s Title IX amendment and end the continual abuse by fraternity members.

Nov 30, 2021 / StudentNation / Finley Muratova

FL: Bari Weiss in Conversation with Alana Newhouse during the Miami Book Fair presented by Miami Dade College, Wolfson campus - Day Two

Who Is the University of Austin For? Who Is the University of Austin For?

The project’s uphill battle points to a deeper contradiction within what might be called neo-neoconservatism.

Nov 26, 2021 / Books & the Arts / David Klion

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