State Power

Prism’s lens on how state power is exercised, enforced, and resisted.

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New York care workers’ fight to end the 24-hour workday highlights the cracks within the progressive movement

Annie Faye Cheng
New York care workers’ fight to end the 24-hour workday highlights the cracks within the progressive movement

PEN America awards and festival canceled after authors and translators pull out en masse

Natasha Ishak
PEN America awards and festival canceled after authors and translators pull out en masse

Student protesters occupy Hamilton Hall at Columbia University

Gillian Goodman
Student protesters occupy Hamilton Hall at Columbia University

Inside Columbia’s Gaza solidarity encampment 

Gillian Goodman
Inside Columbia’s Gaza solidarity encampment 

College encampments spread across the U.S. as calls for divestment from Israel grow

Sravya Tadepalli
College encampments spread across the U.S. as calls for divestment from Israel grow

Reject AIPAC member urges deescalation in response to Iran’s retaliation

Alexandra Martinez
color photograph of an outdoor protest in support of Palestinian liberation. a person wears a keffiyeh around his neck and ca

Why isn’t PEN America paying its incarcerated literary prize winners?

Alex Tretbar Natalye Childress
color collage with a red-and-white border and the PEN America logo among barbed wire, an outstretched hand with coins falling

Beauty and heartbreak in eastern North Carolina

ray levy uyeda
color photograph of a young Black woman in a dark room of a family house, staring at a photograph of young Black boys hanging

Chicago approves measure to eliminate medical debt from credit reports

Noah Berlatsky
color stock photo of an older Black couple sitting at a table in their house looking at a bill

Anti-Blackness shapes school discipline—even in school settings composed of students of color

Tamar Sarai
color stock photo of a young dark-skinned Black girl with natural hair pulled back in a ponytail. she sits at a table leaning

Black undocumented immigrants are erased from immigration narratives and the larger American story

Dr. Felecia S. Russell
color photograph of Black people wearing red cloth face masks in front of a white stone statue

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Circle of trust

Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.
color digital collage of a hand holding up a skull on a teal background