Can China Pacify Its Restive Minorities Peacefully? Can China Pacify Its Restive Minorities Peacefully?
Beijing is experimenting with "soft power" approaches, but brute force remains an omnipresent threat.
Oct 9, 2014 / Foreign Policy In Focus / Piero Sarmiento and Foreign Policy In Focus
What Lena Dunham Taught Us About Unpaid Labor—and What We Taught Ourselves What Lena Dunham Taught Us About Unpaid Labor—and What We Taught Ourselves
Millennial icon Lena Dunham’s relationship to unpaid labour is explored, contextualized and reframed by youth activists and media workers.
Oct 9, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation and Isabelle Nastasia
Why Are We Using Prisons to Treat the Mentally Ill? Why Are We Using Prisons to Treat the Mentally Ill?
As part of OverCriminalized, our video series produced in partnership with the ACLU and Brave New Films, we're calling on Congress to put the focus of mental health reform wher...
Oct 8, 2014 / Take Action / NationAction
After #Ferguson After #Ferguson
The protests that followed the police shooting of Michael Brown created a network of youth in revolt.
Oct 8, 2014 / From the Archive / Steven Hsieh and Raven Rakia
In the Wake of Ferguson, Demand Concrete Change In the Wake of Ferguson, Demand Concrete Change
We’ve joined forces with ColorofChange.org, Daily Kos, the Advancement Project and a host of other organizations to call on the executive branch of our federal government to ...
Oct 8, 2014 / Take Action / NationAction
When Christopher Hitchens Went to Hong Kong, He Saw ‘Wised-Up Young People’ on a ‘Globalized Globe’ When Christopher Hitchens Went to Hong Kong, He Saw ‘Wised-Up Young People’ on a ‘Globalized Globe’
And a DC lawyer reflects on his essay from 1984, when Hong Kong was “full of life.”
Oct 7, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
An Interview with Jackson Browne An Interview with Jackson Browne
The legendary songwriter about his politics, his fourteenth studio album and what it was like the first time he saw Springsteen perform.
Oct 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman and Katrina vanden Heuvel
Gay Marriage Is a Reality in 5 States After a Supreme Court Ruling Gay Marriage Is a Reality in 5 States After a Supreme Court Ruling
Marriage licenses will be issued immediately after the Court declined to hear challenges.
Oct 6, 2014 / Blog / George Zornick
Why Voting and Movement Building Go Hand-in-Hand Why Voting and Movement Building Go Hand-in-Hand
Voting and movements help create representative democracy.
Oct 3, 2014 / Blog / Mychal Denzel Smith
Why Future Generations Will Ask Where You Were on September 21, 2014 Why Future Generations Will Ask Where You Were on September 21, 2014
The People's Climate March proves the climate movement has reached critical mass, like the civil rights movement, antiwar, feminist and gay movements before it.
Oct 2, 2014 / Todd Gitlin