This Week in Poverty: Gangnam-Style Counting With Senator Jeff Sessions This Week in Poverty: Gangnam-Style Counting With Senator Jeff Sessions
Republican Senator Jeff Sessions uses some very creative math to prove that people in poverty have incomes that are similar to the middle class.
Mar 1, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
Honoring Rosa Parks Requires More Than a Statue Honoring Rosa Parks Requires More Than a Statue
The memorial to Parks turned her into a meek and redemptive figure—instead of the radical freedom fighter she was until the end of her life.
Feb 28, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Marwa Amer and Jeanne Theoharis
A Fierce Green Planet A Fierce Green Planet
The argument that we’re living in a new golden age of documentaries will be significantly furthered tomorrow with the release of A Fierce Green Fire, the first major cinemati...
Feb 28, 2013 / Peter Rothberg
Ari Berman: Why Is the Voting Rights Act on the Chopping Block? Ari Berman: Why Is the Voting Rights Act on the Chopping Block?
Ari Berman appears on Washington Journal to debate the importance of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act—which is currently under review by the Supreme Court.
Feb 27, 2013 / Press Room
Stephane Hessel: There Is Always an Alternative to Injustice Stephane Hessel: There Is Always an Alternative to Injustice
Remembering the French resistance spy, diplomat, Buchenwald survivor and human rights defender.
Feb 27, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Challenging Georgia’s Ban on Undocumented Students Challenging Georgia’s Ban on Undocumented Students
As the national debate on comprehensive immigration reform heats up, Georgia activists are fighting racist state-level policy.
Feb 27, 2013 / StudentNation / Jeff Biggers and StudentNation
What’s Next for the Student Divestment Movement? What’s Next for the Student Divestment Movement?
Students are rising up and taking action to make their voices heard on divestment. Everyone, from Shell and Exxon to Boards of Trustees to President Obama, should stop and take not...
Feb 26, 2013 / StudentNation / Caitlin Kidder and StudentNation
You Wearing Your Hoodie Today? You Wearing Your Hoodie Today?
Trayvon Martin’s death is important because it illustrates that race continues to mark the difference between life and death.
Feb 26, 2013 / Aura Bogado
Building an Inclusive Climate Movement Building an Inclusive Climate Movement
A sense of urgency was palpable throughout the second day of the Power Up! Divest Fossil Fuels convergence at Swarthmore College.
Feb 25, 2013 / StudentNation / Caitlin Kidder and StudentNation
Politics and Oscar Night Politics and Oscar Night
The Academy Awards this year were supposed to be “political.” A reminder of a time when that word really meant something.
Feb 25, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein