![NYPD officers in riot gear march onto Columbia University campus, where pro-Palestinian students are barricaded inside a building and have set up an encampment, in New York City on April 30, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/columbia-police-getty.jpg)
This Is How Power Protects Itself This Is How Power Protects Itself
The decision to sic the police on peaceful protesters is evidence that people in charge are panicking. They’re terrified of the strength of the movement for Palestine.
May 1, 2024 / Jack Mirkinson
![Students set up an encampment in solidarity with Palestine at George Washington University with other area universities in Washington, DC, on April 27, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/student-protesters-gw-getty.jpg)
The Grit and Resilience of Student Protesters The Grit and Resilience of Student Protesters
Gen Z is exhibiting the competence, control, and commitment that it has been castigated, as a generation, for lacking.
Apr 30, 2024 / Soraya Chemaly
![Princeton University](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/princeton-cc.jpg)
Princeton Students Join the Gaza Solidarity Movement Princeton Students Join the Gaza Solidarity Movement
The attempts to intimidate students underline something ominous: the erosion of democratic principles.
Apr 29, 2024 / Razia Iqbal
![United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain raises his fist at a rally in Detroit on September 15, 2023.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/shawn-fain-fist-ap.jpg)
Eugene Debs, Walter Reuther, Shawn Fain, and Labor’s Anti-War Legacy Eugene Debs, Walter Reuther, Shawn Fain, and Labor’s Anti-War Legacy
The UAW president’s high-profile advocacy for a cease-fire in Gaza renews a tradition of advocacy for peace and justice by class-conscious union leaders. And he’s not alone.
Dec 21, 2023 / John Nichols
![Pro-Palestine protesters gather outside the offices of The New York Times to challenge the newspaper's coverage of the Israel-Gaza war during a global call to](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/nyt-palestine-protest-ap.jpg)
The Responsibility of Culture Workers to Help Stop the War on Gaza The Responsibility of Culture Workers to Help Stop the War on Gaza
Researchers, writers, and scholars can identify the institutions that provide ideological cover for Israel’s violence and then intervene to stop them.
Dec 15, 2023 / Kay Gabriel
![A peace walk in Cologne, Germany, on November 19, 2023.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GettyImages-1791396832.jpg)
The Lesson From This War: Peace Is a Public Health Issue The Lesson From This War: Peace Is a Public Health Issue
If public health is about human health and flourishing, then assault, torture, murder, and war are all our business.
Nov 30, 2023 / Gregg Gonsalves
![Why These Teachers Unions Are Demanding a Cease-Fire](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/midtown-manhattan-palestine-protest-ap.jpg)
Why These Teachers Unions Are Demanding a Cease-Fire Why These Teachers Unions Are Demanding a Cease-Fire
A flurry of state and local teachers unions have passed cease-fire resolutions, but few national unions have followed.
Nov 16, 2023 / Highlights / Sarah Lazare
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Can the UN Help the Nuclear Victims, At Last? Can the UN Help the Nuclear Victims, At Last?
A new resolution in the General Assembly aims to address the devastating legacy of testing and use.
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Zelensky’s Visit to Washington Zelensky’s Visit to Washington
Time for some hard talking.
Sep 19, 2023 / Anatol Lieven
![Daniel Ellsberg at a podium](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/daniel-ellsberg-ap.jpg)
Daniel Ellsberg’s Heroism Began With Listening to the Anti-War Left Daniel Ellsberg’s Heroism Began With Listening to the Anti-War Left
The whistleblower confronted his complicity in the Vietnam-era war machine. His successors within it prefer to show up at Henry Kissinger’s gala.
Jun 16, 2023 / Forever Wars / Spencer Ackerman