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U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis recently made the Trump administration’s first overseas trip. His destination: South Korea and Japan. In South Korea, Mattis’ first stop, women demanding genuine human security are at the forefront of the resistance.

Black traditions of struggle and defiance to oppression helped define the meanings of freedom and citizenship in the United States.

Increases in policing produces these results: insecurity; broken families and occupied communities; divestment of public resources for education, health, recreation, housing; disenfranchisement for communities targeted by policing and courts; fear and hatred; more inequality; more racism; more human rights abuses; more violence; public debt as the militarized state redoubles itself; and environmental injustice.

In this ongoing "Interviews for Resistance" series, experienced organizers, troublemakers and thinkers share their insights on what works, what doesn't, what has changed, and what is still the same. Today's interview is the twelfth in the series.

The laws’ intent is increasing the penalties for protest-related activity to the point that it results in self-censorship among protesters who have every intention to obey the law.

This was first time in more than three decades that a federal court ruled for the plaintiffs in a partisan-gerrymandering suit after a full trial. It also dealt a critical blow to a very particular kind of gerrymander—call it “extreme seat-maximization”—that emerged in Wisconsin and a handful of other states in the most recent redistricting cycle.

For Sylvia Serfaty, mathematics is all about truth and beauty and building scientific and human connections.

Scholars from multiple disciplines around the world, weigh in on the social, psychological and political issues impacting transgender students.

This week marked the first recess of the 115th Congress, when lawmakers typically return home to meet with their constituents in what are usually sanitized low-key town hall meetings. But this year the "Resistance Recess" campaign is giving Republican legislators an earful. Constituents, mobilized by the election of President Trump, have seized on the town hall meetings, at least 90 in the South alone, to voice their opposition to the Republican legislative agenda.

Former labor secretary and progressive congressman call for unity against Trump after party race that became symbol of centrist-progressive divisions.