How Scientific Publishers’ Extreme Fees Put Profit Over Progress How Scientific Publishers’ Extreme Fees Put Profit Over Progress
Last month, the editorial team of NeuroImage resigned over the “unethical fees” charged by the journal’s publisher, Elsevier. Can scientists ditch the for-profit system?
May 31, 2023 / StudentNation / Kayla Yup
Republicans Attacked These Queer Students’ Lives. So They Fought Back. Republicans Attacked These Queer Students’ Lives. So They Fought Back.
How three Kentucky high schoolers joined forces to stand up to a GOP assault on their rights—and brought hundreds of people along with them.
May 30, 2023 / Shahamat Uddin
What Are the Book Banners Afraid Of? What Are the Book Banners Afraid Of?
They are afraid of readers—especially young readers—learning the truth about humans, about American history, about, perhaps, their own lives.
May 30, 2023 / Feature / Jane Smiley
Ron DeSantis’s Copycat Strategy Is Failing Ron DeSantis’s Copycat Strategy Is Failing
The Florida governor’s bungled campaign launch makes clear there is only room for one Trump.
May 26, 2023 / Jeet Heer
Focusing on the Differences Between DeSantis and Trump Is Plainly Absurd Focusing on the Differences Between DeSantis and Trump Is Plainly Absurd
In the areas where Americans would be most severely affected, there’s hardly a fly’s hair of separation between them.
May 25, 2023 / Clarence Lusane
Stanford’s Title IX Policies Fail to Protect Student Survivors Stanford’s Title IX Policies Fail to Protect Student Survivors
The university’s unique rules add incentives to dismiss cases and reverse disciplinary actions, potentially allowing sexual predators to remain on campus.
May 25, 2023 / StudentNation / Jacqueline Munis
How to Fight the Right’s Moral Panic Over Parental Rights How to Fight the Right’s Moral Panic Over Parental Rights
How the right’s school-themed extremism has triggered a nationwide backlash.
May 23, 2023 / Feature / Jennifer C. Berkshire
The California Teachers’ Strikes Have a Vital Lesson for the Labor Movement The California Teachers’ Strikes Have a Vital Lesson for the Labor Movement
These educators won big—and showed how to use a strike to better society as a whole.
May 19, 2023 / Cecily Myart-Cruz
Joe Biden, Culture Warrior Joe Biden, Culture Warrior
The president’s freedom agenda can win—if he doesn’t embrace austerity.
May 15, 2023 / Jeet Heer
Introducing the 2023 Puffin Student Writing Fellows Introducing the 2023 Puffin Student Writing Fellows
Selected from a highly competitive applicant pool of entrants from coast to coast, ten student journalists will be mentored by leading Nation voices, bestselling authors, and award...
May 15, 2023 / StudentNation / Press Room