A Progressive Icon Returns to Western Politics A Progressive Icon Returns to Western Politics
Former Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson is running for his former office on a mission to confront the city’s housing crisis.
Aug 11, 2023 / Sasha Abramsky
“We Have to Wait. There’s Nothing Else We Can Do.” “We Have to Wait. There’s Nothing Else We Can Do.”
What it was like for the migrants forced to sleep on the street in New York City.
Aug 9, 2023 / Mara Marques Cavallaro
Letters From the August 21/28, 2023, Issue Letters From the August 21/28, 2023, Issue
Suburban blight… Predatory financing… Dancing to AIPAC’s tune (web only)… A commitment to liberation (web only)…
Aug 8, 2023 / Our Readers
A Political Battle Within Political Science: Which Side Is the APSA On? A Political Battle Within Political Science: Which Side Is the APSA On?
The hotel workers’ strike in Los Angeles will force members of the American Political Science Association—and Taylor Swift fans—to decide whether or not to cross union picket lines...
Aug 2, 2023 / Peter Dreier
Other Countries Know Housing Is a Human Right. Why Doesn’t America? Other Countries Know Housing Is a Human Right. Why Doesn’t America?
Many European countries have systems to help unhoused people that put our society to shame. When will we change?
Jul 28, 2023 / Sasha Abramsky
Free School Lunches Kept Millions of Kids Fed During the Pandemic. Why Stop Now? Free School Lunches Kept Millions of Kids Fed During the Pandemic. Why Stop Now?
In North Carolina, the ending of the Covid-era federal meals program devastated low-income communities–and legislators have been slow to face the crisis.
Jul 26, 2023 / StudentNation / Peggy Chen
How Urban Alchemy Turns Homelessness Into Gold How Urban Alchemy Turns Homelessness Into Gold
Cities are pouring money into the nonprofit to manage encampments and patrol the streets where unhoused residents congregate. Not everyone is happy about it.
Jul 19, 2023 / Feature / Paige Oamek and Rohan Montgomery
How WWII-Era Radioactive Waste Fueled a New Crisis at a Missouri Elementary School How WWII-Era Radioactive Waste Fueled a New Crisis at a Missouri Elementary School
Conflicting reports of contamination have worried residents of Florissant, a community that continues to suffer from the legacy of the Manhattan Project.
Jul 10, 2023 / StudentNation / Walter Thomas-Patterson
Gus Newport Showed Bernie Sanders How to Be a Socialist Mayor in the Age of Reagan Gus Newport Showed Bernie Sanders How to Be a Socialist Mayor in the Age of Reagan
Former Berkeley mayor Eugene “Gus” Newport was an indefatigable activist who proudly identified as “an avowed socialist” in the age of Ronald Reagan—a fact that The New York Times…
Jul 3, 2023 / John Nichols
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