Can GMOs Help Feed a Hot and Hungry World? Can GMOs Help Feed a Hot and Hungry World?
Not if activists succeed in making the genetic modification of food politically unsustainable.
Aug 13, 2014 / Feature / Madeline Ostrander
Why Is It So Controversial to Help Poor Mothers Afford Diapers? Why Is It So Controversial to Help Poor Mothers Afford Diapers?
A new bill would let families on welfare afford this basic necessity. What’s wrong with that?
Aug 13, 2014 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Summer of Hate Summer of Hate
Eric Garner’s death marks a darkening mood fifty years after Freedom Summer.
Aug 13, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams
The US Keeps 34,000 Immigrants in Detention Each Day Simply to Meet a Quota The US Keeps 34,000 Immigrants in Detention Each Day Simply to Meet a Quota
It’s time for Congress to eliminate the immigrant detention mandate.
Aug 13, 2014 / Editorial / Robert M. Morgenthau
Authority to Kill a Minority Authority to Kill a Minority
On Saturday, August 9, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, by a local police officer whose identity has not been released. Brown was walking with a friend, 22-year-old Dorian Johnson, on his way to his grandmother’s residence. Johnson says the two were walking in the street when a police car approached and the officer instructed them to “get the fuck onto the sidewalk.” They told the officer they were almost at their destination. Johnson says at that point, the officer slammed his brake, backed up and asked, “What’d you say?”, while opening his car door and attempting to get out. The door hit Brown and then closed. Johnson says the officer then grabbed Brown by the neck. “They’re not wrestling so much as [the policeman’s] arm went from [Brown’s] throat to now clenched on his shirt,” Johnson continues. “It’s like tug of war. [The cop’s] trying to pull him in. [Brown’s] pulling away. That’s when I heard, ‘I’m gonna shoot you.’” According to Johnson, the first shot followed not long after. He and Brown both started running. The officer fired a second shot, this one hitting Brown in the back. Johnson says Brown then turned around with his hands in the air and said, “I don’t have a gun, stop shooting!” The officer ignored Brown’s words and fired several more shots. Parts of Johnson’s story are backed up by another eyewitness, Piaget Crenshaw, who said: “They shot him, and he fell. He put his arms up to let them know he was compliant, and that he was unarmed. And they shot him twice more, and he fell to the ground and died.” Please support our journalism. Get a digital subscription for just $9.50! The St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board wrote, “Michael Brown didn’t get due process.” It’s worse than that. Michael Brown was robbed of his humanity. His future was stolen. His parents’ pride was crushed. His nation’s contempt for black youth has been exposed. A whole generation of young black people are once again confronted with the reality that they are not safe. Black America is left searching for justice. Michael Brown’s shooting is the latest link in a long chain of injustice. Justice for Renisha McBride, the 19-year-old black woman shot in 2013 while seeking help after a car accident, would have looked like Michael being alive to attend college in two days. Justice for Trayvon Martin would have looked like Renisha getting the help she needed. Justice for Oscar Grant would have looked like Trayvon making it home to finish watching the NBA All-Star game, Skittles and iced tea in hand. Justice should be the affirmation of our existence. Read Next: Dani McClain on the murder of black youth
Aug 13, 2014 / Editorial / Mychal Denzel Smith
What’s Exceptional About Ferguson, Missouri? What’s Exceptional About Ferguson, Missouri?
The racial disparities in the town where Michael Brown was killed by police are shocking, but they’re characteristic of the nation.
Aug 13, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
The Murder of Black Youth Is a Reproductive Justice Issue The Murder of Black Youth Is a Reproductive Justice Issue
Can the killing of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Missouri, spark a new kind of conversation about choice, parenting and family?
Aug 13, 2014 / Blog / Dani McClain
Students Stand Up and Speak Out in Sacramento, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, DC Students Stand Up and Speak Out in Sacramento, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, DC
As deportations and state violence heat up, struggles collide.
Aug 12, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Who’s Really to Blame for the Newspaper Industry’s Decline? Who’s Really to Blame for the Newspaper Industry’s Decline?
Did the massive media conglomerates that gobbled up almost all of the country’s dailies really have the public’s best interests at heart?
Aug 12, 2014 / Blog / Leslie Savan
Reflections From Behind the Brick Wall Reflections From Behind the Brick Wall
After spending four year in college, this student gives a critique of the academic industrial complex and the corporatization of higher education.
Aug 12, 2014 / StudentNation / Bakri R and StudentNation