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The Supreme Court said in 2010 that the decision wouldn’t damage Americans’ faith in democracy. Whoops.

Liberals and conservatives face off in the most political apolitical race in the country.

This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution, in which peasants seized upon the radical implications of Martin Luther’s theology to challenge a hierarchical social order

Combining the wisdom of experience with the energy of youth can create powerful, lasting change.

Gavin Newsom's effort to go upside-down has harmed his public standing. The upside of his venture is that provides, in hard numbers and immediate practical implications, a lesson for Democrats.

A Brand-New Protest Format Catches on in a Very Big Way (1965), Wasn’t That a Time? Yes, It Sure Was (1995), A Catchy Name for a Rotten Program (1950), Texas Racists Throw the Book at Student Protesters (1960)

New poll also shows that a significant share of Americans will avoid companies that drop social-inclusion policies

Trump/Musk are pursuing the collapse of the American constitutional model, fundamentally altering the terrain on which the US left operates, requiring an oppositional politics the country has not seen since the time of FDR.

The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches of 2017, but research shows they are far more numerous and frequent — while also shifting to more powerful forms of resistance.