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Articles

Affirmative Racism (Racism and Discrimination, Higher Education, Society)

Students across the country are gearing up to defend affirmative action on a national day of protest on February 24.

Laura Flanders

Blogs

American Exceptionalism, According to Oliver Stone

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States will be rereleased this month on DVD; it tells a different story than the school textbooks we're used to.

October 1, 2013

Hollywood, Hitler and Harvard

Jon Wiener

A leading critic has called on a leading publisher to withdraw and reissue a new book.

September 30, 2013

Students Take On Teach for America—and Its Political Allies

StudentNation

As the semester rolls on, fast-tracked teachers, vouchers and corporate-friendly Democrats get roasted.

September 27, 2013

Stand Up for Toni Morrison During Banned Books Week

Peter Rothberg

The groundbreaking novel The Bluest Eye is under fire in Morrison’s home state of Ohio.

September 24, 2013

Grinnell College Offers $100,000 Prize to Young Social Justice Activists

StudentNation

The Grinnell College Young Innovator Prize offers a $100,000 prize annually to activists under the age of 40 who have demonstrated leadership in the field of social justice.

September 23, 2013

An Adjunct Tragedy

Rick Perlstein

In the death of a pauperized 83-year-old adjunct professor, a lesson on the long-term consequences of the making of an intellectual proletariat.

September 20, 2013

Yes, Harvard, the Climate Crisis Is an ‘Extraordinarily Rare Circumstance’

Wen Stephenson

Harvard tells students and alumni that it will only consider divestment in "extraordinarily rare circumstances." Well, let's see...

September 16, 2013

Bush, Petraeus and Napolitano Get Tough Student Welcomes

StudentNation

As students build new fronts against austerity, some older opponents meet campus uproar.