John Nichols: From Wisconsin to Zuccotti Park John Nichols: From Wisconsin to Zuccotti Park
What made the Wisconsin protests revolutionary?
Feb 23, 2012 / Video / Francis Reynolds and Emily Douglas
From Nation Interns: This Week’s Top Stories (2/22) From Nation Interns: This Week’s Top Stories (2/22)
Each week, The Nation interns pick compelling stories in their areas of interest.
Feb 23, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation
Texans Unite Against the Keystone Pipeline Texans Unite Against the Keystone Pipeline
Last Friday, protesters gathered in Paris, Texas, to support Lamar County farm manager Julia Trigg Crawford’s eminent domain court fight with TransCanada, which is proposing...
Feb 23, 2012 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Student Activists Occupy Novartis Student Activists Occupy Novartis
Activists in New York City, Boston and Washington, DC take over Novartis offices warning that pharma giant Novartis’ lawsuit in India could deny lifesaving medicines to milli...
Feb 22, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation
Why the Media Love the Violence of Protesters and Not of Banks Why the Media Love the Violence of Protesters and Not of Banks
As Occupy heads into the spring, the movement’s initial honeymoon phase is coming to a close.
Feb 21, 2012 / Rebecca Solnit
Occupy Colleges Stages National Teach-Ins Occupy Colleges Stages National Teach-Ins
Schools coast to coast hold teach-ins in preparation for March 1 nationwide march for education.
Feb 17, 2012 / StudentNation / Diana Delgado
Help Save the Montes Family Help Save the Montes Family
This heartbreaking video describes the outrageously unfair detention and deportation of an innocent man and the callous means by which immigration officials casually tear famil...
Feb 17, 2012 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
This Week in Poverty: Obama’s Budget, Your Server’s Budget This Week in Poverty: Obama’s Budget, Your Server’s Budget
If Obama wants his actions to match his rhetoric about helping the poor, he needs to show a lot more leadership.
Feb 17, 2012 / Blog / Greg Kaufmann
For-Profit Higher Ed and the Occupy Movement For-Profit Higher Ed and the Occupy Movement
A Harper's journalist recently went undercover as a University of Phoenix student. What he found was an "education" that was anything but--and a prime example of how the ...
Feb 16, 2012 / Blog / Dana Goldstein
From Nation Interns: This Week’s Top Stories (2/16) From Nation Interns: This Week’s Top Stories (2/16)
Each week, The Nation interns pick compelling stories in their areas of interest.
Feb 16, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation