Low-Income Students Need your Help! UPDATED Low-Income Students Need your Help! UPDATED
The school year is well underway, and most of you know how savage the budget cuts have been. Excellent teachers who care about their students –yes, they exist! --are struggli...
Oct 21, 2009 / Blog / Katha Pollitt
The Right Goes Viral The Right Goes Viral
A new site lets you rate teachers, review textbooks and "raise awareness about America’s slide to communism."
Oct 21, 2009 / StudentNation / Francis Reynolds
Seeing Through the ‘Morehouse Mystique’ Seeing Through the ‘Morehouse Mystique’
New clothing rules reveal Morehouse College's disregard for the T in LGBT.
Oct 20, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation
A Female Economics Laureate: Why Only Now? A Female Economics Laureate: Why Only Now?
The first female winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics serves as both a landmark and an alarming reflection of the limited role of women in the physical sciences.
Oct 15, 2009 / Feature / Sarah Stodola
Slide Show: Gay Rights Now Slide Show: Gay Rights Now
Following the disappointing Clinton and hostile Bush years, LGBT Americans are hopeful that President Obama’s administration will herald a new age of equality. But to date, p…
Oct 15, 2009 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Will Congress Pass a Strong Public Option? Will Congress Pass a Strong Public Option?
Author Sharon Lerner and Rep. Raul Grijalva discuss flaws in the Senate Finance Committee's health bill and increased popular support for a public option.
Facebookers, Unite! Help MADRE Win the Causes Challenge Facebookers, Unite! Help MADRE Win the Causes Challenge
MADRE, the women's rights organization, has joined a contest to raise funds for its work protecting women's rights workers in Afghanistan, where as I'm sure you know many have be...
Oct 15, 2009 / Blog / Katha Pollitt
Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran
Tom Dine, for thirteen years head of AIPAC, now works for a two-state solution and on improving US-Syrian relations.
Oct 14, 2009 / Feature / Helena Cobban
American Jews Rethink Israel American Jews Rethink Israel
The Jewish push for peace is surging through the grassroots, but leaders and policy-makers are still turning a deaf ear.
Oct 14, 2009 / Feature / Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss
New Rules for Schools New Rules for Schools
The most effective way to fight violence in schools is not the widespread "zero tolerance" model. Thankfully, Clayton County, Georgia, may have the perfect solution.