Climate organizers across the country are adding voter engagement work into their own advocacy. But electing Democrats is just a first step. By Sofia Andrade Over the past 10 years, Gavin Healy, a senior at the University of California–Berkeley, has seen his hometown in the Lake Tahoe area of Northern California—once a lush, green place—turn brown. A nearby […]
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Resident Advisers are workers and should demand employment status, union recognition, and fair wages. Universities cannot function without them. By Ava Young-Stoner Before I went off to college last fall, my older friends and family wistfully shared stories about their prime years spent in cramped dorms, dimly lit frat houses, and other situations they might not […]
After evaluating more than 300 applications from a highly talented candidate pool, we’re thrilled to introduce our second group of Puffin StudentNation Fall Fellows. Sofia Andrade is a first-generation student at Harvard University. A Miami-based journalist with roots in Ecuador, she often writes about politics and culture with a focus on gender, race, class, and […]
Kyle Spencer’s new book Raising Them Right shows how the conservative establishment has recruited and trained new generations of activists over the last 60 years. By Julian Epp For conservatives, the most frightening place in the country has always been a college campus. By 1964, Students for a Democratic Society had formed chapters at hundreds of universities with […]
YDSA, the youth section of the largest socialist organization in the country, is tired of working within the Democratic Party. Can they create an alternative? By Zurie Pope During the 2020 election, young voters were an integral part of President Biden’s winning coalition, initially supporting him more than any other age group. But in April, a […]
Over 850,000 trans Americans are eligible to vote in the midterms. But strict voter ID laws, less mail-in voting, and other barriers will make it more difficult. By Theia Chatelle With the 2022 midterm elections only a few weeks away, the stakes have never been higher for trans people. In the first three months of 2022 […]