Law

Meet the Dreamers Escorted Out of the House Immigration Hearing

Meet the Dreamers Escorted Out of the House Immigration Hearing Meet the Dreamers Escorted Out of the House Immigration Hearing

The House held its first immigration hearing of the year—and undocumented youth claimed their space there. 

Feb 6, 2013 / Aura Bogado

Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry

Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry

How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.

Feb 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Does Obama Really Shoot Skeet? Who Cares?

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Does Obama Really Shoot Skeet? Who Cares? Katrina vanden Heuvel: Does Obama Really Shoot Skeet? Who Cares?

As the Washington media gleefully covers the skeet shooting photo, real issues like joblessness get left left by the wayside.  

Feb 5, 2013 / Press Room

Why Don’t White-Collar Criminals Get Equal Time?

Why Don’t White-Collar Criminals Get Equal Time? Why Don’t White-Collar Criminals Get Equal Time?

The Justice Department is suing Standard & Poor’s. But why isn’t anyone going to jail?

Feb 5, 2013 / William Greider

Alabama Hostage Rescue: Using the Military at Home?

Alabama Hostage Rescue: Using the Military at Home? Alabama Hostage Rescue: Using the Military at Home?

A slippery slope that ought to scare us all.

Feb 5, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss

Ten Things to End Rape Culture

Ten Things to End Rape Culture Ten Things to End Rape Culture

Rape culture exists because we don't believe it does. Here's how to empower men and women to change the status quo.

Feb 4, 2013 / The Nation

Dispatches from the US Student Movement: Feb. 1

Dispatches from the US Student Movement: Feb. 1 Dispatches from the US Student Movement: Feb. 1

This week, students host convergences, boycott standardized tests and chain themselves to a potted tree. Can need-blind admissions be saved at Wesleyan? After Adios Arpaio, what...

Feb 1, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/1/2013) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/1/2013)

This week: immigrants cross the US-Mexico border using GPS and poetry, US-trained armies around the world commit attrocities and pundits and politicians shoot themselves in the foo...

Feb 1, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Labor Board and Union Reach a Deal for Sixty-Day Moratorium on Walmart Pickets

Labor Board and Union Reach a Deal for Sixty-Day Moratorium on Walmart Pickets Labor Board and Union Reach a Deal for Sixty-Day Moratorium on Walmart Pickets

The agreement is designed to resolve Walmart’s allegations that workers’ Black Friday protests were illegal.

Jan 31, 2013 / Josh Eidelson

Dreamers Fight Deportations

Dreamers Fight Deportations Dreamers Fight Deportations

While Washington debates a grand immigration resolution, some activists are putting their bodies on the line to free those in detention today.

Jan 30, 2013 / Feature / Aura Bogado

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