What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/7/2014? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/7/2014?
This week: Philip Seymour Hoffman and addiction, gentrification's aesthetics and a GMO battle in Hawaii.
Feb 6, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Skip Meals or Go to Jail? How the For-Profit Probation Industry Preys on the Poor Skip Meals or Go to Jail? How the For-Profit Probation Industry Preys on the Poor
Human Rights Watch finds that private probation companies are fostering a new form of debtors’ prisons.
Feb 6, 2014 / Steven Hsieh
Youth Plan Mass Civil Disobedience to Protest Keystone XL Youth Plan Mass Civil Disobedience to Protest Keystone XL
The Keystone XL fight has become an iconic issue for environmentally-minded young people across the country.
Feb 6, 2014 / Peter Rothberg
In the Indicative Mood In the Indicative Mood
Please tell me what I’m supposed to do!
Feb 6, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Senators Demand a Vote Before More War in Afghanistan Senators Demand a Vote Before More War in Afghanistan
A new security agreement could keep US troops in Afghanistan indefinitely.
Feb 6, 2014 / George Zornick
As Support for Raising the Minimum Wage Grows, Call on Congress to Get On Board As Support for Raising the Minimum Wage Grows, Call on Congress to Get On Board
In the week since President Obama announced that he would raise the minimum wage for federal contractors, pressure has been growing for politicians to do the same for low-wage work...
Feb 6, 2014 / NationAction
From Occupy to Climate Justice From Occupy to Climate Justice
There’s a growing effort to merge economic-justice and climate activism. Call it climate democracy.
Feb 6, 2014 / Feature / Wen Stephenson
Stand With the Girl Scouts Stand With the Girl Scouts
The right-wing “CookieCott” is about a lot more than Thin Mints.
Feb 6, 2014 / John Nichols
The Third Battle of Falluja The Third Battle of Falluja
The United States is still involved in Iraq, though more quietly.
Feb 6, 2014 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters
It's increasingly clear that the online world is, for both government surveillance types and corporate sellers, a new Wild West where anything goes.
Feb 6, 2014 / Pratap Chatterjee