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The Adults Have Failed, So Students Are Leading the Way

The Adults Have Failed, So Students Are Leading the Way The Adults Have Failed, So Students Are Leading the Way

It was young people who made possible the largest gun-control rally in a generation.

Mar 24, 2018 / George Zornick

William Shawcross

Why British Conservatives Are Salivating Over the Oxfam Scandal Why British Conservatives Are Salivating Over the Oxfam Scandal

The Oxfam scandal is a moment of reckoning for the aid sector, but it also gives Tories a plum opportunity to undermine a critical voice.

Mar 23, 2018 / Helen C. Epstein

Madison Square Garden Security

Fans Are the Target of Madison Square Garden’s New Facial-Recognition Technology Fans Are the Target of Madison Square Garden’s New Facial-Recognition Technology

Facial recognition is a threat to privacy and the latest frontier in surveillance.

Mar 23, 2018 / Dave Zirin and Andrew Tan-Delli Cicchi

Trump touches copy of spending bill

If Trump Doesn’t Get His Wall, No One Gets DACA If Trump Doesn’t Get His Wall, No One Gets DACA

The president dangles hope in front of immigrants, but always snatches it away.

Mar 23, 2018 / Julianne Hing

Student Gun Protest

We’ve Been Presented with Two Options: Militarization or Regulation We’ve Been Presented with Two Options: Militarization or Regulation

For me, school is a refuge. I cannot imagine that sanctity violated by the introduction of weapons.

Mar 23, 2018 / StudentNation / Claire Devine

Student walkout for gun control

How to Join the Movement to End Gun Violence How to Join the Movement to End Gun Violence

Contact your elected officials, support grassroots organizations, and vote.

Mar 23, 2018 / Andrew Tan-Delli Cicchi

Espinosa Journalist Murdered Mexico Veracruz

Welcome to Veracruz, Mexico, One of the Most Dangerous Places in the World to Be a Journalist Welcome to Veracruz, Mexico, One of the Most Dangerous Places in the World to Be a Journalist

Killing reporters here is only one element in a campaign of state terror.

Mar 23, 2018 / James North

On a Sentence by Fernanda Melchor

On a Sentence by Fernanda Melchor On a Sentence by Fernanda Melchor

¿Qué es lo más cabrón que te ha pasado en la vida? The most fucked-up thing to happen to me? Addled by busyness, I crumpled my life and let it drop and then I outlived my life, roc…

Mar 23, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Forrest Gander

John Bolton

Apocalypse Soon? John Bolton Is Set to Replace H.R. McMaster as National-Security Adviser Apocalypse Soon? John Bolton Is Set to Replace H.R. McMaster as National-Security Adviser

Even a cursory look at some of Bolton’s pronouncements on a number of high-profile foreign-policy challenges should be cause for grave concern.

Mar 23, 2018 / James Carden

Should Ivanka Be Indicted? 

Should Ivanka Be Indicted?  Should Ivanka Be Indicted? 

Amy Wilentz on the case against the first daughter.

Mar 23, 2018 / Jon Wiener

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