Social Justice

When Will Justice Be Served in Bahrain?

When Will Justice Be Served in Bahrain? When Will Justice Be Served in Bahrain?

Two years after the Arab Spring came to Bahrain, protesters are still fighting rampant human rights abuses—a bloody battle that isn't likely to end anytime soon.

Mar 5, 2013 / Sharif Abdel Kouddous

Dispatches From the US Student Movement: March 1

Dispatches From the US Student Movement: March 1 Dispatches From the US Student Movement: March 1

This week, students across the country rail against program cuts, tuition hikes and racist university policies. What’s next for reproductive justice in Alabama? Could Congres...

Mar 1, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (3/1/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (3/1/13)

Forecasts look gloomy from Chicago to Greece as politicians play on economic fears, but there are patches of sunlight in places like Chile, where factions are joining to protest ne...

Mar 1, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Ari Berman: Why Is the Voting Rights Act on the Chopping Block?

Ari Berman: Why Is the Voting Rights Act on the Chopping Block? Ari Berman: Why Is the Voting Rights Act on the Chopping Block?

Ari Berman appears on Washington Journal to debate the importance of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act—which is currently under review by the Supreme Court.

Feb 27, 2013 / Press Room

Stephane Hessel: There Is Always an Alternative to Injustice

Stephane Hessel: There Is Always an Alternative to Injustice Stephane Hessel: There Is Always an Alternative to Injustice

Remembering the French resistance spy, diplomat, Buchenwald survivor and human rights defender.

Feb 27, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

You Wearing Your Hoodie Today?

You Wearing Your Hoodie Today? You Wearing Your Hoodie Today?

Trayvon Martin’s death is important because it illustrates that race continues to mark the difference between life and death. 

Feb 26, 2013 / Aura Bogado

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/22/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/22/13)

This week's articles critique the United Nations, big labor, big business, the mainstream media and President Obama.  

Feb 22, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Feminism Has Come a Long Way—or Has It?

Feminism Has Come a Long Way—or Has It? Feminism Has Come a Long Way—or Has It?

The last century—and the next—of women’s struggle for justice.

Feb 21, 2013 / Ruth Rosen

Time to Go Beyond Judging Rihanna and Chris Brown

Time to Go Beyond Judging Rihanna and Chris Brown Time to Go Beyond Judging Rihanna and Chris Brown

Nineteen years after the passage of the Violence Against Women Act, we need to reauthorize. We also need to do more.

Feb 15, 2013 / Laura Flanders

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/15/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/15/13)

This week, articles critique the spotty broadband coverage in the United States, our complacent foreign policy in the Middle East, the idealistic education proposals in Barack Obam...

Feb 15, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

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