Social Justice

Student Protest Roe

What’s At Stake for Young Voters What’s At Stake for Young Voters

Young people coast to coast detail the most critical issues in the 2022 midterms, from student debt to abortion to climate change.

Jul 26, 2022 / StudentNation / StudentNation

The Arizona Prison System Is Censoring “The Nation.” We’re Doing Something About It.

The Arizona Prison System Is Censoring “The Nation.” We’re Doing Something About It. The Arizona Prison System Is Censoring “The Nation.” We’re Doing Something About It.

Arizona prison authorities are stopping incarcerated people from reading The Nation. We’re working with the ACLU’s National Prison Project to assert their First Amendment rights.

Jul 25, 2022 / D.D. Guttenplan, Bhaskar Sunkara, and Katrina vanden Heuvel

Aliyah Boston shoots a basket.

Aliyah Boston Makes ESPN Look Small Aliyah Boston Makes ESPN Look Small

Aliyah Boston showed that she doesn’t need the ESPYs—but the ESPYs desperately need her.

Jul 22, 2022 / Dave Zirin

Voting Isn’t Enough. Our Democracy Requires Radical Reform.

Voting Isn’t Enough. Our Democracy Requires Radical Reform. Voting Isn’t Enough. Our Democracy Requires Radical Reform.

Our country is in the midst of a legitimacy crisis, with the Supreme Court at the heart of it. Here’s how we can fix it.

Jul 19, 2022 / Representative Ilhan Omar

Wilmington, North Carolina, commemorates the 1898 Wilmington coup and race massacre

It Can Happen Here: A White Supremacist Coup That Succeeded It Can Happen Here: A White Supremacist Coup That Succeeded

A vivid reminder that rural Americans are on the front lines of democracy.

Jul 15, 2022 / Laura Flanders

Big Corporate Money Wants to Kick Andy Levin Out of Congress

Big Corporate Money Wants to Kick Andy Levin Out of Congress Big Corporate Money Wants to Kick Andy Levin Out of Congress

The Michigan congressman and labor organizer is the latest target of AIPAC and corporate-funded groups seeking to defeat progressives in Democratic primaries nationwide.

Jul 15, 2022 / John Nichols

Worker with Wind Turbines

This Doesn’t Have to Hurt: An Argument Against BDSM Economics This Doesn’t Have to Hurt: An Argument Against BDSM Economics

Inflicting pain on workers to fix inflation isn’t just unfair. It’s stupid, ineffective, and completely unnecessary.

Jul 13, 2022 / Zack Exley and Robert Hockett

LGBTQ Flag Supreme Court

Young LGBTQ People Aren’t Waiting for Democrats to Protect Them Young LGBTQ People Aren’t Waiting for Democrats to Protect Them

After the Biden administration failed to adequately respond to Roe’s being overturned, queer people worry that their rights will be next.

Jul 13, 2022 / StudentNation / Zurie Pope

Deadly InHuman Trafficking

Deadly InHuman Trafficking Deadly InHuman Trafficking

On June 26, 53 migrants (aged 13–53 years old) were found dead inside an abandoned trailer in Texas, in the nation’s deadliest smuggling attempt.

Jul 12, 2022 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

View of downtown Buffalo with City Hall reflecting in Lake Erie

Buffalo Community Activists Show How to Fight Gerrymandering Buffalo Community Activists Show How to Fight Gerrymandering

From the folks who backed India Walton, a community-led approach to redistricting.

Jul 12, 2022 / Geoff Kelly

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