Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (4/19/2013) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (4/19/2013)
As Glenn Greenwald and others have written, this week is a time for checking racial stereotypes. Elsewhere from Boston, as this week's Nation intern roundup indicates...
Apr 18, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
The Senate’s Drone and Trigger-Happy Immigration Bill The Senate’s Drone and Trigger-Happy Immigration Bill
Legal permanent residency and eventual citizenship will be conditional on expanded border security—including the use of drones.
Apr 17, 2013 / Aura Bogado
The Once and Future Harlem The Once and Future Harlem
A sense of common destiny with Africa ebbs and flows in New York's gentrifying black enclave.
Apr 17, 2013 / Feature / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Welcome to the Gilded City of New York Welcome to the Gilded City of New York
In the Age of Bloomberg, America’s most iconic big city is also its most unequal.
Apr 17, 2013 / Feature / The Editors
Resurrecting Brownsville Resurrecting Brownsville
In a neighborhood immune to gentrification, a different model of revitalization is required.
Apr 17, 2013 / Feature / Ginia Bellafante
Kent State Students Demand Debt Redress Kent State Students Demand Debt Redress
Kent State students are mobilizing today against excessive costs and bleak job prospects.
Apr 17, 2013 / StudentNation / Kyle McCarthy and StudentNation
Greg Kaufmann: After Sequestration, Where Will Poor Families Sleep? Greg Kaufmann: After Sequestration, Where Will Poor Families Sleep?
Housing programs are getting the budgetary knife—a crisis for seniors, people with disabilities and poor families.
Apr 17, 2013 / Press Room
Tell Your Senators to Preserve Background Checks in Gun Control Legislation Tell Your Senators to Preserve Background Checks in Gun Control Legislation
Right now, Senator Tom Coburn is advancing a change to the rules regarding background checks that would undermine much of the bill's intent.
Apr 16, 2013 / NationAction
Celebrating the Ridenhour Awards and Courageous Whistleblowers Celebrating the Ridenhour Awards and Courageous Whistleblowers
They are more vital now than ever, when the Obama administration has invoked the Espionage Act more than all other presidents combined.
Apr 16, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dispatches From the US Student Movement: April 15 Dispatches From the US Student Movement: April 15
This week, Newark walks out, Arizona kneecaps its students and UNC rape survivors create a national underground network. And more!
Apr 15, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation