In Youth Courts, Teenage Judges Hear Your Case In Youth Courts, Teenage Judges Hear Your Case
With volunteers in middle and high school, approximately 1,400 teen courts in the US allow young people to be defended, prosecuted, and sentenced by their peers.
Jun 29, 2023 / StudentNation / Emily Aikens
From Rikers Island to City Hall: Yusef Salaam’s Ultimate Exoneration From Rikers Island to City Hall: Yusef Salaam’s Ultimate Exoneration
Falsely imprisoned as one of the “Central Park Five,” Yusef Salaam will likely become Harlem’s next city council member. His top antagonist, Donald Trump, is likely heading to pris...
Jun 28, 2023 / Joan Walsh
What Can Happen When Young Socialist Elected Officials Gather for a Weekend of Lessons and Solidarity? What Can Happen When Young Socialist Elected Officials Gather for a Weekend of Lessons and Solidarity?
Jacobin, the DSA Fund, and The Nation organized a conference to find out.
Jun 28, 2023 / Branko Marcetic
Living Communally Can Make Us Less Lonely Living Communally Can Make Us Less Lonely
We’ve been convinced that single-family houses on our own plots of land or isolated flats in towers signal success. Yet, for many of us, these habitats prove far from ideal.
Jun 28, 2023 / Kristen R. Ghodsee
Eugenics, Environmental Ruin, and Surveillance: The Story of Silicon Valley Eugenics, Environmental Ruin, and Surveillance: The Story of Silicon Valley
California’s tech industry cannot escape its original sins.
Jun 23, 2023 / Edward Ongweso Jr.
The Federal Government Is “Affirming Everything That Black People Have Been Saying” The Federal Government Is “Affirming Everything That Black People Have Been Saying”
The Department of Justice report slamming the Minneapolis Police Department is also a cause for hope.
Jun 22, 2023 / Ibrahim Hirsi
Why Is It So Hard to Close Rikers? Why Is It So Hard to Close Rikers?
New York City’s public advocate Jumaane D. Williams and journalist Nick Pinto talk to Laura Flanders about the difficulties of shrinking the incarceration system.
Jun 15, 2023 / Q&A / Laura Flanders
How Freddie Mac Helps Private Equity Profit From Tenant Misery How Freddie Mac Helps Private Equity Profit From Tenant Misery
Overloaded with debt, with maintenance and repairs cut back to the bone, tenants are being bled dry to make millions for speculators—with a crucial assist from the Federal Home Loa...
Jun 13, 2023 / Feature / Eileen Markey
What We Can Learn From the Canadian Wildfires What We Can Learn From the Canadian Wildfires
The smoke that blanketed the US Northeast was not incidental or anomalous but yet another manifestation of accelerating anthropogenic climate change.
Jun 12, 2023 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen
On a Rapidly Warming Planet, Home Is a Luxury On a Rapidly Warming Planet, Home Is a Luxury
The importance of place and the draw of home is at odds with the future we have created for our planet.
Jun 8, 2023 / Jane Braxton Little