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The Red Tape Remains: Columbia Students in Solidarity With Sexual Assault Survivors

The Red Tape Remains: Columbia Students in Solidarity With Sexual Assault Survivors The Red Tape Remains: Columbia Students in Solidarity With Sexual Assault Survivors

Students band together to combat sexual violence on Columbia’s campus through direct action. 

Sep 28, 2014 / StudentNation / George Joseph and StudentNation

Newark Students Have Made the City Their Classroom

Newark Students Have Made the City Their Classroom Newark Students Have Made the City Their Classroom

Students in Newark, New Jersey, walked out of class earlier this month in protest of the “One Newark” plan to privatize the district’s schools. A substitute teach...

Sep 26, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation and Nyle Fort

Colbert: ‘The Cocks on Fox’ Are Wrong About ‘Boobs on the Ground’

Colbert: ‘The Cocks on Fox’ Are Wrong About ‘Boobs on the Ground’ Colbert: ‘The Cocks on Fox’ Are Wrong About ‘Boobs on the Ground’

Bolling apologized, he said, because his wife gave him “the look.” Sounds sincere to us!

Sep 26, 2014 / Leslie Savan

Why Obama’s Challenge to China on Climate Change Is Too Little, Too Late

Why Obama’s Challenge to China on Climate Change Is Too Little, Too Late Why Obama’s Challenge to China on Climate Change Is Too Little, Too Late

Beijing’s carbon-reduction targets are already far more ambitious than Washington’s.

Sep 26, 2014 / Lucia Green-Weiskel

Roxane Gay Is a Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay Is a Bad Feminist Roxane Gay Is a Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay talks about rewriting the rules of feminism.

Sep 26, 2014 / Melissa Harris-Perry

‘The Facts Themselves Speak Truth to Power’: An Interview With NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith

‘The Facts Themselves Speak Truth to Power’: An Interview With NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith ‘The Facts Themselves Speak Truth to Power’: An Interview With NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith

After the most tumultuous, scandal-plagued month in the history of the NFL commissioner’s office, we speak to the executive director of the player’s union about where t...

Sep 26, 2014 / Dave Zirin

Hardest-Hitting Anti-Koch Ad Ever

Hardest-Hitting Anti-Koch Ad Ever Hardest-Hitting Anti-Koch Ad Ever

Could ads like this stop the Kochs from buying the Senate?

Sep 25, 2014 / Leslie Savan

Déjà Vu All Over Again Déjà Vu All Over Again

Studying history to avoid repeating it

Sep 25, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Why Are We Sending Soldiers Trained for War to Respond to the Ebola Crisis?

Why Are We Sending Soldiers Trained for War to Respond to the Ebola Crisis? Why Are We Sending Soldiers Trained for War to Respond to the Ebola Crisis?

Few would oppose a robust US response to Ebola, but the Obama administration's deployment of 3,000 troops to Liberia comes amid a broader US-led militarization in West Africa.

Sep 25, 2014 / Joeva Rock and Foreign Policy In Focus

Israel’s Bloated War Machine

Israel’s Bloated War Machine Israel’s Bloated War Machine

Prime Minister Netanyahu promotes and sometimes manufactures an endless series of national security crises. The military and settlers win; everyone else loses.

Sep 25, 2014 / Uri Blau

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