The Deeper Lessons of the Incident at Middlebury The Deeper Lessons of the Incident at Middlebury
The Manichean model of framing political conflicts polarizes public life, unravels the bonds of common citizenship, and doesn’t create a broad majority base for significa...
Mar 17, 2017 / StudentNation / Harry C. Boyte
Your March Madness Bracket Is Exploiting Student-Athletes Your March Madness Bracket Is Exploiting Student-Athletes
The NCAA has become a bigger and bigger business—but athletes are in the same position they’ve been for decades.
Mar 13, 2017 / Dave Zirin
We Are Still Winning the Fight for Trans Rights We Are Still Winning the Fight for Trans Rights
The Supreme Court may have declined to hear Gavin Grimm’s case—but history is firmly on his side.
Mar 7, 2017 / Naomi Gordon-Loebl
Russians Don’t Want to Live in the Middle Ages Russians Don’t Want to Live in the Middle Ages
By reducing the penalty for domestic violence, the Duma yet again failed to heed the voices of citizens and experts.
Feb 1, 2017 / Blog / Nadezhda Azhgikhina
Want to Know How Trump’s Policies Will Actually Impact Undocumented Immigrants? Read This. Want to Know How Trump’s Policies Will Actually Impact Undocumented Immigrants? Read This.
How Trump will target immigrants, and how all of our communities can fight back.
Jan 27, 2017 / Michelle Chen
Fear and Fight in the Final Days of DACA Fear and Fight in the Final Days of DACA
Every day, undocumented young people must decide whether to ask the Trump administration for renewal of their status.
Jan 25, 2017 / Julianne Hing
All the Human Be-In Was Saying 50 Years Ago, Was Give Peace a Chance All the Human Be-In Was Saying 50 Years Ago, Was Give Peace a Chance
Then, as now, many in the political classes looked down on supposedly impractical efforts to change consciousness.
Jan 13, 2017 / Blog / Danny Goldberg
Why Millennials Aren’t Afraid of Socialism Why Millennials Aren’t Afraid of Socialism
It’s an old idea, but the people who will make it happen are young—and tired of the unequal world they’ve inherited.
Jan 10, 2017 / StudentNation / Julia Mead
In the Wake of Trump, a Black-Student Groundswell In the Wake of Trump, a Black-Student Groundswell
We know, from our history and social-studies and literature classes, the value of peaceful protest and civil disobedience.
Dec 16, 2016 / StudentNation / Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, Grace Dolan-Sandrino, and Zahri Jackson
Trumpism Poses the Most Dire Threat to Academic Freedom in Recent Memory Trumpism Poses the Most Dire Threat to Academic Freedom in Recent Memory
A shadowy new Professor Watchlist has revived the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s. We must fight back.
Dec 13, 2016 / Blog / Erik Loomis