Youth

Who Keeps Kids Safe?

Who Keeps Kids Safe? Who Keeps Kids Safe?

In the US, children and teens are more likely to die from guns than from anything else.

Sep 8, 2025 / OppArt / Robin McCarthy

Demonstrators gather to protest against a travel ban announced by US President Donald Trump.

The “Refugee Pipeline” Has Been Abandoned The “Refugee Pipeline” Has Been Abandoned

Since Trump took office, assistance for refugees has largely been revoked or suspended, with many recent arrivals from Afghanistan unable to bring their families.

Sep 8, 2025 / StudentNation / Ava Menkes

A member of the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee holds a sign during a protest.

How Young Kashmiris Shape the Struggle for Self-Determination How Young Kashmiris Shape the Struggle for Self-Determination

Silenced and sidelined and between nation-states, young people are organizing for an independent Kashmir.

Sep 4, 2025 / StudentNation / Khadeejah Khan

Employees with Project Weber-Renew in Providence, Rhode Island.

This Overdose Prevention Center Isn’t Giving Up on Harm Reduction This Overdose Prevention Center Isn’t Giving Up on Harm Reduction

Over the past decade, overdose protections and programs like Project Weber-Renew have expanded, but with Trump back in office, this trend may be short lived.

Sep 2, 2025 / StudentNation / Fareed Salmon

The Harvard Graduate Student Union–United Automobile Workers during a rally in 2021.

Trump’s War on Higher Ed Comes to the Bargaining Table Trump’s War on Higher Ed Comes to the Bargaining Table

As two of the nation’s largest private graduate student unions fight for new contracts, their members have been among the most vulnerable to the president’s attacks on universitie...

Aug 21, 2025 / StudentNation / Amann Mahajan

Young People Are Using ChatGPT for Therapy, but the Conversations Lack Privacy and Protections

Young People Are Using ChatGPT for Therapy, but the Conversations Lack Privacy and Protections Young People Are Using ChatGPT for Therapy, but the Conversations Lack Privacy and Protections

Therapy is now one of the leading uses of AI. But unlike traditional therapy notes, which are privileged, transcripts with chatbots carry no such shield.

Aug 8, 2025 / StudentNation / Chelsea Lubbe and Ray Epstein

The tower at the University of Texas in April 2024 in Austin.

Texas Ended In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants. Students Are Already Feeling the Impact. Texas Ended In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants. Students Are Already Feeling the Impact.

“The message is loud and clear: You’re good enough to pick vegetables or clean hotel rooms, but not to go to college.”

Aug 4, 2025 / StudentNation / Lajward Zahra

People wade in the waters of the Great Salt Lake at Antelope Island in August 2021.

The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb

Retreating water levels are exposing stretches of cracked, arsenic-laden lakebed in Utah. Future dust storms will carry an extra hazard.

Jul 29, 2025 / StudentNation / Adelaide Parker

Zohran Mamdani smiles in front of a microphone with his hand on his chest.

Zohran Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive Zohran Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive

The doom-obsessed Democratic Party remains as unpopular as ever—but there is another path.

Jul 28, 2025 / Jeet Heer

A four-panel comic from Action Comics 8, 1939. Superman destroys slum housing to force the government to build public housing for the poor.

The New Deal and the Popular Front Gave Us Superman The New Deal and the Popular Front Gave Us Superman

The real Man of Steel wasn’t woke, but he was radical.

Jul 25, 2025 / Jeet Heer

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