Georgia Bans Undocumented Students From Top Schools Georgia Bans Undocumented Students From Top Schools
Georgia's decision to ban undocumented students from top state schools is part of a larger assault on Plyler vs. Doe, the decision that established the right to K-12 education fo...
Oct 18, 2010 / StudentNation / Braden Goyette
Nation Conversations: The Future of Film Criticism Nation Conversations: The Future of Film Criticism
The Nation's Stuart Klawans recently joined David Sterrit of the National Society of Film Critics and Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly for a panel discussion moderated by...
Oct 18, 2010 / The Nation
Sherrod Brown Seeing ‘Reds’ Over China Trade Sherrod Brown Seeing ‘Reds’ Over China Trade
A liberal Ohio senator uses an unfortunate baseball analogy.
Oct 18, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Indocumentados Trabajaron Para Dobbs Indocumentados Trabajaron Para Dobbs
Lou Dobbs regularmente arremetía contra los “empleadores de ilegales.” Sin embargo, el propio Dobbs utilizó mano de obra de indocumentados para qu...
Oct 18, 2010 / Isabel Macdonald
Penn Democrats Register 1,300 New Voters Penn Democrats Register 1,300 New Voters
Numbers show promise for voter turnout on campuses in Nov. 2 midterm election.
Oct 18, 2010 / StudentNation / Victor Gamez
The Campaign Trail: A Break From Politics The Campaign Trail: A Break From Politics
Canvassing the slums of Philadelphia gave one student an unexpected opportunity to climb down from the ivory tower and see the real impact of government policy for himself.
Oct 17, 2010 / StudentNation / Mike Madoff
Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like This… Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like This…
American culture from Saul Bellows to Janeane Garofalo to NPR.
Oct 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
On Loving Queer Kids On Loving Queer Kids
When faced with something so painful as gay teen suicide, it's easy to scapegoat child bullies. It's hard to create a world that wants queer youth to live and thrive.
Oct 14, 2010 / Richard Kim
Publish or Perish Publish or Perish
The military may not be winning the Afghan War, but it is winning the Afghan publishing wars at home, with a striking percentage of books on the war Pentagon-influenced or simply P...
Oct 14, 2010 / Nick Turse
Conversation: Greg Mitchell on Politics and Media Manipulation Conversation: Greg Mitchell on Politics and Media Manipulation
The Nation's Media Fix blogger Greg Mitchell takes us back to the origins of media campaigning with Upton Sinclair's 1934 bid for California governor.
Oct 13, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV