While the Fashion World Swoons Over This Season’s Styles, the Workers Making Them Are Fainting on the Job While the Fashion World Swoons Over This Season’s Styles, the Workers Making Them Are Fainting on the Job
Cambodia’s garment workers are fighting for something they’ve never had before: a living wage.
Sep 17, 2014 / Michelle Chen
How Art Inspires Change How Art Inspires Change
The Nation and the Center for Community Change partnered together for an essay contest in which young people were asked to submit a photo they found meaningful and an essay ex...
Sep 17, 2014 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation and Faron Manuel
Climate Change Is a People’s Shock Climate Change Is a People’s Shock
What if, instead of accepting a future of climate catastrophe and private profits, we decide to change everything?
Sep 16, 2014 / Naomi Klein
How to Define Success for the People’s Climate March How to Define Success for the People’s Climate March
Organizers want to transform the image of the climate movement from one dominated by white liberals to one populated by the entire spectrum of race and class in America.
Sep 16, 2014 / Mark Hertsgaard
The Questions Congress Should Ask About Obama’s War on ISIS The Questions Congress Should Ask About Obama’s War on ISIS
More than two-dozen groups are calling on lawmakers to address serious gaps and inconsistencies in the president’s strategy.
Sep 16, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
To Start the Semester, Students Walk Out, Shut Down Traffic and ‘Carry That Weight’ To Start the Semester, Students Walk Out, Shut Down Traffic and ‘Carry That Weight’
Will Koch-allied trustees, state-appointed superintendents or President Obama ever listen to students?
Sep 15, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Steven Salaita, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Academic Freedom Steven Salaita, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Academic Freedom
Either neither of them have a place on college campuses, or both do.
Sep 15, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg
Why We’ll Be Marching in the Largest Climate Change Demonstration in History Why We’ll Be Marching in the Largest Climate Change Demonstration in History
At the People’s Climate March in New York City on September 21, there’s a world to march for.
Sep 15, 2014 / Eddie Bautista, LaTonya Crisp-Sauray, and Bill McKibben
Will DOJ Intervention Improve Policing in Ferguson? Will DOJ Intervention Improve Policing in Ferguson?
There’s debate over whether federal government involvement will make a difference in Ferguson. Cincinnati, site of a police shooting in 2002, offers clues on how to address r...
Sep 12, 2014 / Dani McClain
Why Hong Kong’s ‘Occupy Central’ Movement Has Beijing Very, Very Scared Why Hong Kong’s ‘Occupy Central’ Movement Has Beijing Very, Very Scared
Hong Kong is one of the most unequal developed economies in the world. Now the mainland government wants to keep a tight grip on the territory’s political system too.
Sep 12, 2014 / Eli Friedman