In Arizona, High-School Students Are Making Mental Health the Focus of Anti-Gun-Violence Legislation In Arizona, High-School Students Are Making Mental Health the Focus of Anti-Gun-Violence Legislation
They’re tired of seeing overworked counselors, and they’re tired of not being listened to—students’ mental health, they say, matters.
Apr 9, 2019 / StudentNation / Jordan Harb and Emma Rowland
Letters From the April 22, 2019, Issue Letters From the April 22, 2019, Issue
Led astray by the third way… Walker’s downfall… Nuclear insanity… Making scammers pay…
Apr 4, 2019 / Letters / Our Readers
A Federal Judge Strikes Down Arkansas’s Medicaid Work Requirement A Federal Judge Strikes Down Arkansas’s Medicaid Work Requirement
Now the 18,000 Arkansans who lost health-care coverage are eligible to get it back.
Mar 28, 2019 / Bryce Covert
New York State Can Lead the Country on Publicly Financed Elections New York State Can Lead the Country on Publicly Financed Elections
A broad-based coalition of labor, environmental, racial- and social-justice groups is making a critical push this week for doable and transformative reform.
Mar 26, 2019 / John Nichols
New Jersey Is Addicted to ICE New Jersey Is Addicted to ICE
North Jersey is a Democratic stronghold. Why is it complicit with Trump’s deportation machine?
Mar 26, 2019 / Whitney Strub
Guarding the Southern Border Has Become an Exercise in Cruelty Guarding the Southern Border Has Become an Exercise in Cruelty
Twelve ways in which Trump’s wall will only add to our border crisis.
Mar 25, 2019 / William deBuys
‘Loyal Slave’ Monuments Tell a Racist Lie About American History ‘Loyal Slave’ Monuments Tell a Racist Lie About American History
These monuments—nearly all of them still standing—prop up the fantasy that slaves were happy, loyal, and devoted to those who enslaved them.
Mar 25, 2019 / Kali Holloway
A Wisconsin Judge Upends the GOP Power Grab and Restores the Authority of the Democratic Governor A Wisconsin Judge Upends the GOP Power Grab and Restores the Authority of the Democratic Governor
Governor Tony Evers immediately withdraws Wisconsin from the Republican-led lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act.
Mar 21, 2019 / John Nichols
Who’s Afraid of the International Criminal Court? Who’s Afraid of the International Criminal Court?
Mike Pompeo’s diplomatic sanctions against war-crimes investigators are consistent with Trump’s “America first” worldview.
Mar 21, 2019 / Nicholas Mulder
The Oakland Teachers’ Strike Revealed California’s Education Crisis The Oakland Teachers’ Strike Revealed California’s Education Crisis
The struggle for fair funding goes way beyond the district. So now the teachers are taking their fight to Sacramento.
Mar 18, 2019 / Bryce Covert