Court Cases Continue to Decide the Future of Voting Rights Court Cases Continue to Decide the Future of Voting Rights
This week’s updates on early voting, voter ID and the power of marginalized voters.
Aug 17, 2012 / Aura Bogado and Voting Rights Watch
Partisan Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Wrongly Upheld by Court Partisan Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Wrongly Upheld by Court
A Pennsylvania Republican judge refuses to block the state's unjust, unnecessary and discriminatory voter ID law.
Aug 15, 2012 / Ari Berman
Attacking Shariah, Attacking Religious Freedom Attacking Shariah, Attacking Religious Freedom
In the United States, anti-Islamic fear-mongering has paved the way for efforts to criminalize the religion itself.
Aug 14, 2012 / Dr. Zahid Bukhari
Attacks on Chile’s Indigenous Peoples Thwart Efforts at Land Reparations Attacks on Chile’s Indigenous Peoples Thwart Efforts at Land Reparations
The indigenous Mapuche people have been trying to reclaim their ancestral lands for the past ten years, but Chilean authorities have only reacted with force.
Aug 13, 2012 / Brittany Peterson
Did Islamophobia Fuel the Oak Creek Massacre? Did Islamophobia Fuel the Oak Creek Massacre?
The anti-Muslim hate that might have fueled the the Oak Creek murderer is more widespread than you think.
Aug 10, 2012 / Moustafa Bayoumi
Interns’ Favorite Pieces of the Week (8/9/12) Interns’ Favorite Pieces of the Week (8/9/12)
Every week, Nation interns try to look beyond the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention.
Aug 9, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation
Ohio Early Voting Cutbacks Disenfranchise Minority Voters Ohio Early Voting Cutbacks Disenfranchise Minority Voters
The state's Republicans are limited early voting hours in pro-Obama counties while expanding them in GOP strongholds.
Aug 8, 2012 / Ari Berman
Omar Jadwat: Stopping Racial Profiling in Arizona Omar Jadwat: Stopping Racial Profiling in Arizona
How do you put a human face on an injustice that so often goes under the radar?
Aug 6, 2012 / Francis Reynolds
Shootings at Sikh Temple Test the Founding Faith of America Shootings at Sikh Temple Test the Founding Faith of America
Now is the time for President Obama to affirm the Jeffersonian ideal that no American “should suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief.”
Aug 6, 2012 / John Nichols
Interns’ Favorite Pieces of the Week (8/1/12) Interns’ Favorite Pieces of the Week (8/1/12)
Every week, Nation interns try to look beyond the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention.
Aug 2, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation