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About Half of US States Set No Minimum Age for Marriage About Half of US States Set No Minimum Age for Marriage

If you thought child marriage didn’t exist in the United States, think again.

Nov 2, 2017 / Michelle Chen

Betsy DeVos speaks about Title IX

What Betsy DeVos Gets Wrong About Sexual Assault on Campus What Betsy DeVos Gets Wrong About Sexual Assault on Campus

Her focus on due process shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the dynamics at play in campus rape investigations.

Sep 12, 2017 / StudentNation / Elizabeth Adetiba

Sessions arrives at the news conference

Jeff Sessions Will Say Anything To Play Trump’s Stooge Jeff Sessions Will Say Anything To Play Trump’s Stooge

Announcing the end of DACA, the attorney general was serially dishonest.

Sep 5, 2017 / Joan Walsh

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Letters From the August 14-21, 2017, Issue Letters From the August 14-21, 2017, Issue

The real crime… Reconstructing/deconstructing… Eating the environment…

Jul 27, 2017 / Letters / Our Readers

Young Sanders supporters in Brooklyn

Corbyn and Sanders Show That Neoliberalism Has Failed to Privatize Hope Corbyn and Sanders Show That Neoliberalism Has Failed to Privatize Hope

A generation trained to be selfish is anything but. 

Jul 26, 2017 / Ronald Aronson

Freddie Gray protests

Student Journalists Are Our Future—We Should Start Treating Them Like It Student Journalists Are Our Future—We Should Start Treating Them Like It

They’re the next generation, and they’ve been picking up the slack of gutted local newsrooms and indifferent national outlets.

Jul 11, 2017 / StudentNation / William Anderson

Young Black Girls

Adults Think Black Girls Are Older Than They Are—and It Matters Adults Think Black Girls Are Older Than They Are—and It Matters

A new study found that, starting at age 5, black girls are viewed by adults as behaving and seeming older than they actually are.

Jul 6, 2017 / Collier Meyerson

Mother and daughter

California Is Massively Expanding One of the Most Effective Tools to Make Work Pay Better California Is Massively Expanding One of the Most Effective Tools to Make Work Pay Better

The number of families helped by the Golden State’s Earned Income Tax Credit is about to triple.

Jun 21, 2017 / Joe Sanberg

The Troubled Resentencing of America’s Juvenile Lifers

The Troubled Resentencing of America’s Juvenile Lifers The Troubled Resentencing of America’s Juvenile Lifers

When SCOTUS outlawed mandatory juvenile life without parole, advocates celebrated—but the outcome has been anything but fair.

Jun 21, 2017 / Feature / Jessica Pishko

Refugees fleeing Sana

Donald Trump Is Waging a War on Children Donald Trump Is Waging a War on Children

America’s never-ending “war on terror” wreaks havoc on the physical, mental, and emotional health of kids around the world.

Jun 15, 2017 / Karen J. Greenberg

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