Students Walk Out for Community College, Hunger Strike for Janitors, and Mass for Tony Robinson Students Walk Out for Community College, Hunger Strike for Janitors, and Mass for Tony Robinson
As the semester ends, the action ramps up.
May 18, 2015 / StudentNation / StudentNation
The United States Is Sponsoring an Army That Recruits Child Soldiers The United States Is Sponsoring an Army That Recruits Child Soldiers
American law prevents military aid to countries that employ child soldiers—but that hasn’t stopped us in South Sudan.
May 18, 2015 / Nick Turse
May 18, 1917: Congress Passes the Selective Service Act, Instituting a Mandatory Military Draft May 18, 1917: Congress Passes the Selective Service Act, Instituting a Mandatory Military Draft
"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty, and Christian teaching."
May 18, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
May 17, 1954: Supreme Court Rules Segregation Unconstitutional in ‘Brown v. Board of Ed.’ May 17, 1954: Supreme Court Rules Segregation Unconstitutional in ‘Brown v. Board of Ed.’
"The decision was a fine antidote to the blight of McCarthyism and kindred fevers."
May 17, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
May 16, 1918: Congress Passes the Sedition Act May 16, 1918: Congress Passes the Sedition Act
"A vast enthusiasm for new laws and a vast indifference after their enactment is very much the American [way]."
May 16, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
‘Good Kill’: Drone Pilots Get PTSD, Civilians Die Nameless ‘Good Kill’: Drone Pilots Get PTSD, Civilians Die Nameless
A new movie from Andrew Niccol stars Ethan Hawke as a pilot fighting terrorists from the ’burbs of Las Vegas.
May 15, 2015 / Ali Gharib
Why Are the Rohingya Risking Everything to Flee Burma? Why Are the Rohingya Risking Everything to Flee Burma?
Stateless refugees from Burma are risking death, rape, and drowning by the thousands on a perilous escape to Malaysia.
May 15, 2015 / Daniel P. Sullivan and Foreign Policy In Focus
Verizon Swallows Net-Neutrality Champion Huffington Post Verizon Swallows Net-Neutrality Champion Huffington Post
What happens to press freedom when an ALEC-supporting telecom giant owns one of the world’s most-read news sites?
May 15, 2015 / Leslie Savan
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 5/15/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 5/15/15?
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 5/15/15?
May 15, 2015 / StudentNation / StudentNation
The Other Baltimore Story: Ronald Hammond and ‘Routine Injustice’ The Other Baltimore Story: Ronald Hammond and ‘Routine Injustice’
The right to a lawyer is a key protection against unjust prison sentences, but public defenders are overwhelmed and under-resourced.
May 15, 2015 / Jonathan Rapping