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It’s time to end the sale of military-style assault weapons to civilians.

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 center. 

As Roe v. Wade turns forty, NARAL seeks to mobilize a younger generation of activists.

Rejecting proposals to tighten borders, a network of grassroots groups calls for reform based on “human, labor and civil rights for all.”

To be decent, an immigration reform bill must set out a path to citizenship that isn’t paved with broken glass.

Whatever reform passes in Washington, poverty in the global South will continue to drive migration.

How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.

Rape culture exists because we don't believe it does. Here's how to empower men and women to change the status quo.

While Washington debates a grand immigration resolution, some activists are putting their bodies on the line to free those in detention today.

After election day victories in Colorado and Washington, marijuana legalization activists are gearing up for more.