Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/8/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/8/13)
This week, Nation interns tackle media bias. What is "sharia" law? What's missing in common debates about "labor"? How do white male tech writers ...
Feb 8, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and the Power of Being an Ally Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and the Power of Being an Ally
A trip to Philadelphia, Mississippi, forced me to confront how far I’d go for someone else.
Feb 7, 2013 / Nona Willis Aronowitz
Infiltrating ICE: How Undocumented Activists Are Organizing on the Inside Infiltrating ICE: How Undocumented Activists Are Organizing on the Inside
Undocumented activist Marco Saavedra talks with The Nation's Francis Reynolds and Aura Bogado about the struggle to crack open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention cent...
Feb 7, 2013 / Francis Reynolds and Aura Bogado
Leo Gerard Is Rising Leo Gerard Is Rising
To send labor supporters into their final week of preparing for One Billion Rising, United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard recorded this special video message.
Feb 6, 2013 / Laura Flanders
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
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
As we mark the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, how far have we come? And how far do we have to go?
Feb 6, 2013 / Ilyse Hogue
Where Are the Student Voices in the Gun Control Debate? Where Are the Student Voices in the Gun Control Debate?
In the wake of Newtown, students are upping the fight against racial injustice in school discipline.
Feb 4, 2013 / StudentNation / James Cersonsky and StudentNation
Why It’s Legal When the US Does It Why It’s Legal When the US Does It
How the United States military has become a global police force for the superrich and superpowerful.
Feb 4, 2013 / Noam Chomsky
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
Italy Votes: Austerity, Social Justice—or Don Giovanni? Italy Votes: Austerity, Social Justice—or Don Giovanni?
The sad truth is that disarming and defeating Silvio Berlusconi remains the country’s first priority.
Jan 31, 2013 / Frederika Randall