Why Toy Guns Matter Why Toy Guns Matter
The NRA wants to start kids young, but parents can resist gun culture.
Aug 1, 2016 / Frida Berrigan
The 2016 Nation Student Writing Contest The 2016 Nation Student Writing Contest
Entries will be accepted through Monday, September 26, 2016.
Jul 28, 2016 / StudentNation / Peter Rothberg
Who Goes to the DNC Anyway? Who Goes to the DNC Anyway?
From an 18-year-old first-time voter to a baseball-cap entrepreneur, eight conventioneers tell us what brings them to Philly.
Jul 28, 2016 / Samantha Schuyler and Molly Stier
Sweet 16: The Case for Lowering the Voting Age Sweet 16: The Case for Lowering the Voting Age
Teens and young voters across the country have lowered the voting age in several cities — and they're setting their sights on DC.
Jul 7, 2016 / StudentNation / Jazmin Kay
The North Carolina 6 and the Targeting of Black and Brown Youth The North Carolina 6 and the Targeting of Black and Brown Youth
#BlackLivesMatter, #ImmigrantLivesMatter, and this criminalization must stop.
Jun 24, 2016 / Rebekah Barber
Growing Up With Climate Change Growing Up With Climate Change
My generation will be the first to have lived an entire lifetime in a climate changed world. We witnessed the first climate impacts. We will experience the worst. We were born into…
Jun 15, 2016 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin
Note to Media: Black Lives Matter Is Not a ‘Get Out the Vote’ Campaign Note to Media: Black Lives Matter Is Not a ‘Get Out the Vote’ Campaign
So stop asking how it affects the black-youth vote, and stop judging it by goals it never claimed.
May 20, 2016 / Reniqua Allen
These Grannies Are Helping to Plug the School-to-Military Pipeline at Its Source These Grannies Are Helping to Plug the School-to-Military Pipeline at Its Source
When teachers are underpaid and schools are underserved, why do we pay veterans to encourage young students to join the military?
Why I Wouldn’t Go to the University of Texas Law School Why I Wouldn’t Go to the University of Texas Law School
Come August 1, the concept of trigger warnings will take on a literal meaning on Texas college campuses.
May 5, 2016 / StudentNation / Andrew Wilson
The Global Epidemic of Child Warriors The Global Epidemic of Child Warriors
From the Taliban to suicide bombers in the Middle East and Africa, young people are enacting the savageries of their elders.
Apr 18, 2016 / John Feffer