The Student Intifada
A little over two years ago, the student movement for Palestine transformed American college campuses seemingly overnight. But the passion and energy that built those encampments wasn’t enough to sustain the fight.
21023 Article(s) by: William G. Martin
William G. Martin teaches at SUNY-Binghamton and is co-author of After Prisons? Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment (2016) and a founding member of Justice and Unity for the Southern Tier; he covers local justice matters at www.justtalk.blog
Working Overtime
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Kenya’s Youth Protesters Are Ready to Govern
The Kenya Left Alliance played a role in organizing the country’s recent rebellion against regressive tax reforms and police brutality. Now it’s launching a bid for power in the 2027 elections.
The Gen Z Crack-Up?
We surveyed over a thousand young people across the anglophone world to get a sense of their views on politics and culture.
Zohrannabes
Across the country, Democrats have tried and failed to emulate Mamdani’s successful mayoral campaign.
Wolves in Youth’s Clothing
A new crop of young Democratic Party challengers is running on generational politics alone, hoping to capitalize on voters’ hunger for change without running afoul of the centrist establishment.
Yesterday’s News
The 20th century saw an explosion in teen media. Now many of those magazines have folded.
Fun and Games?
Youth sports are transforming from neighborhood fun to big business.
High School Hunting Grounds
When the military wants to recruit students, it targets schools in big cities and the South, as well as schools that are poorer and less white than the national average.
A Teen Magazine for Grown-Ups
In a culture without a middle, Teen Vogue became a lodestar for aging millennials.
Workers Can Organize Outside the NLRB
When it comes to reversing labor’s decline, union elections through the National Labor Relations Board have proven woefully insufficient. We need strategies for building workplace power that aren’t dependent on the NLRB.
MAGA’s War on Teaching Goes Full Conspiracy Theory
What were once considered the ravings of tinfoil-hat conspiracy junkies are now par for the course for the Trumpian right and its analysis of the state of public education.
How Work Got So Bad
Under capitalism, technological “progress” like AI systematically deskills workers, deepens managerial control, and turns the labor process into a site of conflict rather than liberation. This is by design.