America Needs a New Free Speech Movement America Needs a New Free Speech Movement
Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.
Mar 19, 2025 / Zephyr Teachout
When They Came for Columbia University When They Came for Columbia University
The university has become the Trump administration’s test case for the largest assault on higher education since the McCarthy era. Sadly, it has notably failed to defend itself.
Mar 19, 2025 / Column / David Klion
Trump’s Economics—and America’s Economy Trump’s Economics—and America’s Economy
You can’t make America great again by wrecking the government.
Mar 19, 2025 / James K. Galbraith
The Battle of Theologies in the Age of Trump The Battle of Theologies in the Age of Trump
Trump and his people target those that the Bible is most concerned about: children, the poor, immigrants, the sick and disabled, women, the vulnerable, and the earth itself.
Mar 18, 2025 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
Trump’s Mob-Boss Offer to Us Jews: Accept “Protection”—or Else Trump’s Mob-Boss Offer to Us Jews: Accept “Protection”—or Else
Under the guise of “fighting antisemitism,” Trump is shredding our rights and telling us we are safe.
Mar 18, 2025 / Dave Zirin
Trump Is Trying to Create His Own Personal Legal Strike Force Trump Is Trying to Create His Own Personal Legal Strike Force
With his speech at the DOJ, Trump officially declared his intention to reshape the legal system according to his whims and will.
Mar 18, 2025 / Elie Mystal
How the American Left Became Conservative How the American Left Became Conservative
Against the radical, if reactionary, experiment run from the White House, everyone from Democratic leaders in Congress to MSNBC hosts have turned to the defense of institutions.
Mar 18, 2025 / Michael Kazin
Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center, but Silencing the Arts Will Not Be So Easy Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center, but Silencing the Arts Will Not Be So Easy
Our last best hope for sharing, shaping, and wrangling over independent ideas may turn out to be America’s scrappy and disparate arts spaces—if they can hang on financially.
Mar 18, 2025 / Alisa Solomon
Rodrigo Duterte Is at The Hague. What’s Next for the Philippines? Rodrigo Duterte Is at The Hague. What’s Next for the Philippines?
His arrest by the ICC was a monumental step in prosecuting his bloody drug war. But it’s also the latest episode in a battle between the Philippines’ two political dynasties.
Mar 18, 2025 / Walden Bello
Mahmoud Khalil Is “Ready to Fight” His Unlawful Detention Mahmoud Khalil Is “Ready to Fight” His Unlawful Detention
StudentNation spoke with Shezza Abboushi Dallal, a member of Khalil’s legal defense team, about the status of his case and the government’s attack on freedom of speech.
Mar 18, 2025 / StudentNation / Luca GoldMansour