This Week: The Change I Believe In. PLUS: Bob Herbert on What’s Next for OWS This Week: The Change I Believe In. PLUS: Bob Herbert on What’s Next for OWS
This week, I take my new book on the road. Plus, Scott Sherman on the upheaval at the New York Public Library, Bob Herbert on what's next for Occupy Wall Street, and we welco...
Dec 2, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Heat From the Arts on Mayor Mike Bloomberg Heat From the Arts on Mayor Mike Bloomberg
At Occupy Museums at Lincoln Center Thursday night, it was "Glass war" not "class war"—and Glass won, composer Philip Glass.
Dec 2, 2011 / Laura Flanders
A Future in Which Greed is Not a Virtue and Sharing is Not a Sin A Future in Which Greed is Not a Virtue and Sharing is Not a Sin
COLLEGE FINALIST: My generation must take on the task of building strong community economies and reestablishing collective wealth for all people.
Dec 2, 2011 / Matthew Hickson
Misogyny is Killing My Generation Misogyny is Killing My Generation
HIGH SCHOOL FINALIST: Suddenly, my opinion of a record I had been listening to for over eight years was turned on its head.
Dec 2, 2011 / Kevin Xiong
Facing Up Facing Up
COLLGE FINALIST: There’s still time to face up to the issues we stand to inherit, and our generation has the modern means to do it. Whether we can muster the will&m...
Dec 2, 2011 / Alex Klein
“Mommy, Where Are All the Black Kids?” “Mommy, Where Are All the Black Kids?”
HIGH SCHOOL FINALIST: A Black face in my high school would become as foreign as a repressed memory that everyone just seemed to forget existed.
Dec 2, 2011 / Ashley Arkhurst
Dangers of an Absent Mind Dangers of an Absent Mind
COLLEGE FINALIST: The inability for people to live in the present may become increasingly dangerous as it continues to become more socially acceptable.
Dec 2, 2011 / Jake Shoemaker
What Will Become of My Generation? What Will Become of My Generation?
HIGH SCHOOL WINNER: A graduating high school senior reflects on her generation's embattled future—and its dwindling access to quality education.
Dec 2, 2011 / Hannah Moon
Maybe I Would Be Alone Maybe I Would Be Alone
COLLEGE WINNER: Catastrophe is different when it is personal.
Dec 2, 2011 / Bryce Wilson Stucki
Keystone XL Isn’t Dead Yet Keystone XL Isn’t Dead Yet
Two Republican bills in Congress have the potential to restart the pipeline project.
Dec 2, 2011 / George Zornick