5 Tools the Police Are Using in Their War Against Activists 5 Tools the Police Are Using in Their War Against Activists
From Ferguson to Baltimore, the message is clear: protest at your peril.
May 5, 2015 / Michael Gould-Wartofsky
Helpful Responses to Baltimore Helpful Responses to Baltimore
Helpfulness not guaranteed.
May 5, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 5/4/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 5/4/15?
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 5/4/15?
May 4, 2015 / StudentNation / StudentNation
‘The Game Done Changed’: Reconsidering ‘The Wire’ Amidst the Baltimore Uprising ‘The Game Done Changed’: Reconsidering ‘The Wire’ Amidst the Baltimore Uprising
I was a Wire fanatic because I thought it told tough truths about Baltimore City. After the last two weeks, I’m starting to see all that it was missing.
May 4, 2015 / Dave Zirin
At Least 240,000 People Want to Cancel All Student Debt At Least 240,000 People Want to Cancel All Student Debt
A coalition including Coalition for America's Future, Daily Kos, Student Debt, and The Nation delivered a petition to Elizabeth Warren calling for the cancelation of all studen...
May 4, 2015 / Nadia Kanji
Privacy and the Profit Motive Privacy and the Profit Motive
The fallout from the Edward Snowden fiasco wasn’t just political—it was largely economic.
May 4, 2015 / Lawrence Cappello
‘And the Youth Shall Lead!’ Ten Voices From a Generational Moment ‘And the Youth Shall Lead!’ Ten Voices From a Generational Moment
In Baltimore and beyond, a generational uprising.
May 1, 2015 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Why Aren’t More Union Bosses Black Women? Why Aren’t More Union Bosses Black Women?
Black women have been labor movement faithfuls and today scramble to be unionized. So why aren’t there more in labor leadership?
May 1, 2015 / Dani McClain
Why Baltimore Burns Why Baltimore Burns
In 1950, Baltimore was the sixth-most-populous city in the country. Today, it is 26th, and its remaining poor black residents are cut off from their more affluent neighbors.
May 1, 2015 / Eric S. Singer
Baltimore’s Inescapable Inequality Baltimore’s Inescapable Inequality
What looks like a night of “chaos” in Baltimore was just one freeze-frame in a long arc of urban crisis.
May 1, 2015 / Michelle Chen