Did Child Labor Build Your Smart Phone? Did Child Labor Build Your Smart Phone?
A watchdog group has uncovered numerous labor violations at a Samsung supplier in southern China—including underage workers.
Jul 11, 2014 / Michelle Chen
How to End the Rebirth of the ‘Old Confederacy’ in the ‘New South’: An Interview With the Reverend Jesse Jackson How to End the Rebirth of the ‘Old Confederacy’ in the ‘New South’: An Interview With the Reverend Jesse Jackson
Jackson explains how Southern politics dangerously mirror the Old Confederate South and why it’s time for another Reconstruction
Jul 8, 2014 / Victoria Ford
Want Colleges to Protect Students From Sexual Assault? Take Action to Give Title IX Teeth Want Colleges to Protect Students From Sexual Assault? Take Action to Give Title IX Teeth
The Department of Education has never sanctioned a school for sexual-assault related violations. It’s time to change that.
Jul 8, 2014 / Alexandra Brodsky, Dana Bolger, and NationAction
How to Turn a Grueling, Thankless Job Into a Movement How to Turn a Grueling, Thankless Job Into a Movement
The journey one of the first domestic workers’ groups in New York attests to the power of grassroots labor activism and the hurdles that come with it.
Jul 3, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Here’s Something Patriotic You’ll Want to Support Here’s Something Patriotic You’ll Want to Support
Join The Nation and Green America in calling on Congress to pass the Clean Energy Victory Bonds Act of 2014.
Jul 3, 2014 / NationAction
DREAMers in Grad School DREAMers in Grad School
Four states have granted in-state tution to undocumented students, but the higher education pipeline continues to be plagued.
Jul 2, 2014 / StudentNation / Jude Paul Dizon and StudentNation
50 Years After Freedom Summer, America Needs a Revived Movement for Racial Justice 50 Years After Freedom Summer, America Needs a Revived Movement for Racial Justice
There is much to celebrate in Mississippi, and yet America still needs a year of action on voting rights.
Jul 2, 2014 / The Editors
Postcards Post-Stonewall Postcards Post-Stonewall
We can pretend the politics of liberation can be tracked along clearly marked lines, or we can remember that history is like desire.
Jul 2, 2014 / JoAnn Wypijewski
Half a Century After Freedom Summer, It’s Time for America to ‘Earn Our Insurgencies’ Half a Century After Freedom Summer, It’s Time for America to ‘Earn Our Insurgencies’
There is much to celebrate in Mississippi, yet America still needs a year of action on voting rights.
Jul 2, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
When the Republicans Really Were the Party of Lincoln When the Republicans Really Were the Party of Lincoln
What happened to the party that fifty years ago played such a vital role in passing the Civil Rights Act?
Jul 2, 2014 / John Nichols