America’s Youth Uprising America’s Youth Uprising
The renewal of labor militancy and radical politics is being led by a rising generation with its own rock-and-rap passion.
Feb 15, 2012 / Editorial / John Nichols
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Feb 14, 2012 / The Nation
Our Student Prize-winners Our Student Prize-winners
Congratulations to the winners of The Nation's sixth annual Student Writing Contest.
Jan 25, 2012 / Editorial / The Nation
Digging for Democracy Digging for Democracy
COLLEGE FINALIST: The range of options that my generation has to choose from has been whittled to a handful of bad ones. I am coming of age not in the land of the free, but in...
Dec 6, 2011 / Zoë Carpenter
Winning the Future Winning the Future
HIGH SCHOOL FINALIST: We cannot invest more in education without making appropriate policy changes.
Dec 6, 2011 / Sakib Ahmed
A Future in Which Greed is Not a Virtue and Sharing is Not a Sin A Future in Which Greed is Not a Virtue and Sharing is Not a Sin
COLLEGE FINALIST: My generation must take on the task of building strong community economies and reestablishing collective wealth for all people.
Dec 2, 2011 / Matthew Hickson
Misogyny is Killing My Generation Misogyny is Killing My Generation
HIGH SCHOOL FINALIST: Suddenly, my opinion of a record I had been listening to for over eight years was turned on its head.
Dec 2, 2011 / Kevin Xiong
Facing Up Facing Up
COLLGE FINALIST: There’s still time to face up to the issues we stand to inherit, and our generation has the modern means to do it. Whether we can muster the will&m...
Dec 2, 2011 / Alex Klein
“Mommy, Where Are All the Black Kids?” “Mommy, Where Are All the Black Kids?”
HIGH SCHOOL FINALIST: A Black face in my high school would become as foreign as a repressed memory that everyone just seemed to forget existed.
Dec 2, 2011 / Ashley Arkhurst
Dangers of an Absent Mind Dangers of an Absent Mind
COLLEGE FINALIST: The inability for people to live in the present may become increasingly dangerous as it continues to become more socially acceptable.
Dec 2, 2011 / Jake Shoemaker