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Arizona's Agenda of Hate (Anti-Racism Activism, Racism and Discrimination, Politics)

Guest-hosting The Rachel Maddow Show, Nation DC Editor Chris Hayes speaks with Arizona Representative Raúl Grijalva about the ongoing assault on civil liberties in his state and the racial basis for the infamous new immigration law.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Spitzer and Melber Discuss Arizona's Immigration Law (Anti-Racism Activism, US Politics, Immigration to the US)

Ari Melber debates the legality of SB 1070 with Eliot Spitzer, guest-host of The Dylan Ratigan Show.

MSNBC
Los Suns Slam Arizona Law (Anti-Racism Activism, Activism, Society)

The Nation's sports correspondent, Dave Zirin, appears on Democracy Now! giving a history lesson of protest and sports and the recent news of "Los Suns" protesting Arizona's anti-immigration law.

Democracy Now!
Beyond Business as Usual (Social Justice, Economic Development, Environment, Politics)

We can't simply grow our way out of unemployment.

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Crist Switches Parties & the Latest on Immigration (Anti-Racism Activism, Civil Rights Activism, Politics, Society)

Ari Melber discusses immigration reform and Crist’s switch to Independent on The Dylan Ratigan Show.

MSNBC
The Tribe of SNCC (Civil Rights Activism, Activism)

Over a thousand gathered to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and to pass the torch to a new generation.

Tom Hayden
The Surveillance Regime (Civil Rights Activism, Dissent After 9-11, War on Terrorism, The Courts)

Under Obama, accountability for rights violations during the "war of terror" has been thin.

The Editors
The New Jim Crow (Civil Rights Activism, Social Justice, Race and Religion)

How the war on drugs gave birth to a permanent American undercaste.

Michelle Alexander
Receding Sexual Rights in VA (Social Justice, Reproductive Rights, Gay and Lesbian Issues and Organizing, Sex and Sexuality, Society)

Virginia's governor repeals protection against sexual discrimination and may cut funding to Planned Parenthood.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Slide Show: Civil Rights in The Nation (Civil Rights Activism, Social Justice, Society)
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Interns' Favorite Articles of the Week (4/28/13)
StudentNation

Gender segmentation still prevails in the workplace, the greenery of West Virginia hides the scars of strip mining and Canada's border service holds off on capturing terror suspects until new terrorism legislation came up for debate.

April 28, 2013
Fat-Shaming All Around Us
Chloe Angyal

There’s nothing healthy about shaming people for their bodies.

April 25, 2013
Tell President Obama: Halt Deportations Now
Take Action

While Congress debates, President Obama could make a real difference in the lives of the 11 million undocumented immigrants who have made their home in the United States.

April 23, 2013
Let's Not Normalize This Thing Called 'Terrorism': A Conversation With Sohail Daulatzai
Aura Bogado

The way communities of color respond to the logic of antiterrorism can make us part of the problem—or the solution.

April 22, 2013
Anti-Prostitution Pledge Heads to Supreme Court
Melissa Gira Grant

The Supreme Court will now decide: can the government force aid recipients to oppose prostitution?

April 19, 2013
Interns' Favorite Articles of the Week (4/19/2013)
StudentNation

As Glenn Greenwald and others have written, this week is a time for checking racial stereotypes. Elsewhere from Boston, as this week's Nation intern roundup indicates, world-turning questions abound.

April 18, 2013
The Senate’s Drone and Trigger-Happy Immigration Bill
Aura Bogado

Legal permanent residency and eventual citizenship will be conditional on expanded border security—including the use of drones.

April 17, 2013
Greg Kaufmann: After Sequestration, Where Will Poor Families Sleep?
Nation in the News

Housing programs are getting the budgetary knife—a crisis for seniors, people with disabilities and poor families.

April 17, 2013
Undocumented Youth Infiltrates Another Immigrant Detention Center
Aura Bogado

Twenty-seven-year-old Claudia Muñoz checked into a Michigan facility—to fight for the release of those being unfairly held.

April 15, 2013
Interns' Favorite Articles of the Week (4/12/13)
StudentNation

In the latest picks, activists organize around education, economist Richard Wolff tells it like it is and Farc and the Colombian government make progress towards peace. Who said no news is good news?

April 12, 2013