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Join us in Honoring the Parkland Students Dec. 11th. Tickets Still Available.
November 30, 2018
We invite you to join us at The Nation Institute’s Gala on Tuesday, December 11th at 6:00pm at the IAC Building. Purchase tickets here. We are delighted to announce that we will present the 2018 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship to the Parkland Student Activists, who founded March for Our Read More

Parkland Students win Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship
November 30, 2018
The Parkland Student Activists are the winners of the 2018 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship. The Students, in partnership with young activists across the country, founded the March for Our Lives to end gun violence and challenge the complacency of lawmakers. March organizers David Hogg, Jaclyn Corin, Delaney Tarr, and Read More

Read about The Costs of the Confederacy in the latest issue of Smithsonian. Another Puffin supported piece produced by The Nation Institute.
November 29, 2018
THE COSTS OF THE CONFEDERACY At Beauvoir this past October, Jim Huffman, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, showed students the 1863 battle flag of the Army of Tennessee. (Brian Palmer) In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and Read More