Social Justice

Jail Time Is a Terrible Way to Treat Substance Abuse

Jail Time Is a Terrible Way to Treat Substance Abuse Jail Time Is a Terrible Way to Treat Substance Abuse

By facilitating access to treatment and services, Seattle’s drug-enforcement program actually helps those suffering from substance abuse, while revolutionizing criminal justice.

Oct 16, 2014 / Kara Dansky

Can Ferguson’s Protests Build a Nationwide Movement Against Police Violence?

Can Ferguson’s Protests Build a Nationwide Movement Against Police Violence? Can Ferguson’s Protests Build a Nationwide Movement Against Police Violence?

More than sixty days after the killing of Michael Brown, Ferguson October is building momentum against police violence.

Oct 14, 2014 / Melissa Harris-Perry

What Lena Dunham Taught Us About Unpaid Labor—and What We Taught Ourselves

What Lena Dunham Taught Us About Unpaid Labor—and What We Taught Ourselves What Lena Dunham Taught Us About Unpaid Labor—and What We Taught Ourselves

Millennial icon Lena Dunham’s relationship to unpaid labour is explored, contextualized and reframed by youth activists and media workers.

Oct 9, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation and Isabelle Nastasia

Voting Rights Victory in North Carolina

Voting Rights Victory in North Carolina Voting Rights Victory in North Carolina

Civil rights groups bring power back to North Carolina voters by challenging a restrictive voting law.

Oct 1, 2014 / Ari Berman

From Walmart to Wall Street, Students Mass for Racial Justice

From Walmart to Wall Street, Students Mass for Racial Justice From Walmart to Wall Street, Students Mass for Racial Justice

For young people across the country, generational moments collide.

Sep 29, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

What It Takes to Unite Teachers Unions and Communities of Color

What It Takes to Unite Teachers Unions and Communities of Color What It Takes to Unite Teachers Unions and Communities of Color

Overcoming years of tensions and divisions, parents and teachers are linking arms to save public schools.

Sep 24, 2014 / Michelle Fine and Michael Fabricant

‘We Need to Convert That Energy’: Keith Ellison on What Comes After the People’s Climate March

‘We Need to Convert That Energy’: Keith Ellison on What Comes After the People’s Climate March ‘We Need to Convert That Energy’: Keith Ellison on What Comes After the People’s Climate March

A Q&A with the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Sep 24, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

How Hard Times Are Healing Bosnia

How Hard Times Are Healing Bosnia How Hard Times Are Healing Bosnia

Amid rising anti-government sentiment and a series of natural disasters, Bosnia-Herzegovina's fractured ethnic communities are drawing strength from an unlikely source: each ot...

Sep 17, 2014 / Peter Lippman and Foreign Policy In Focus

How Art Inspires Change

How Art Inspires Change How Art Inspires Change

The Nation and the Center for Community Change partnered together for an essay contest in which young people were asked to submit a photo they found meaningful and an essay ex...

Sep 17, 2014 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation and Faron Manuel

Climate Change Is a People’s Shock

Climate Change Is a People’s Shock Climate Change Is a People’s Shock

What if, instead of accepting a future of climate catastrophe and private profits, we decide to change everything?

Sep 16, 2014 / Naomi Klein

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