Facing Up Facing Up
COLLGE FINALIST: There’s still time to face up to the issues we stand to inherit, and our generation has the modern means to do it. Whether we can muster the will&m...
Dec 2, 2011 / Alex Klein
Dangers of an Absent Mind Dangers of an Absent Mind
COLLEGE FINALIST: The inability for people to live in the present may become increasingly dangerous as it continues to become more socially acceptable.
Dec 2, 2011 / Jake Shoemaker
What Will Become of My Generation? What Will Become of My Generation?
HIGH SCHOOL WINNER: A graduating high school senior reflects on her generation's embattled future—and its dwindling access to quality education.
Dec 2, 2011 / Hannah Moon
Maybe I Would Be Alone Maybe I Would Be Alone
COLLEGE WINNER: Catastrophe is different when it is personal.
Dec 2, 2011 / Bryce Wilson Stucki
Netanyahu to Israeli Jews: Don’t Marry Americans Netanyahu to Israeli Jews: Don’t Marry Americans
New Israeli ads portray American Jews as ignorant lost souls.
Dec 1, 2011 / Blog / Dana Goldstein
Lee Fang Takes on the Corporatization of American Schools Lee Fang Takes on the Corporatization of American Schools
A network of conservative politicians, lobbyists and corporate interests are attempting to privatize public education through "virtual schooling."
Nov 29, 2011 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Berkeley Faculty Votes to Condemn Chancellor for Police Violence Berkeley Faculty Votes to Condemn Chancellor for Police Violence
A nearly unanimous vote at our greatest public university.
Nov 29, 2011 / Blog / Jon Wiener
‘Dear Jenny: I Fired Your Mom and Put You to Work to Help You “Rise.” Love, Newt’ ‘Dear Jenny: I Fired Your Mom and Put You to Work to Help You “Rise.” Love, Newt’
Yes! A new ad campaign rips Gingrich’s cruel proposal to fire janitors and replace them with child labor.
Nov 25, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Penn State’s Patriarchal Pastimes Penn State’s Patriarchal Pastimes
There is a message here about masculine privilege.
Nov 16, 2011 / Column / Katha Pollitt
How Online Learning Companies Bought America’s Schools How Online Learning Companies Bought America’s Schools
Under the banner of high-tech progress, corporate lobbyists have rammed through legislation privatizing K-12 education across the country.