Last Saturday brought out about seven million Americans in joyous protest. How to turn protest to power? The hopeful news is that Americans in all parts of the country demonstrated energy, resolve, and solidarity.
The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns. Occasional actions that simply protest a particular policy or egregious action aren’t enough.
‘Indecency has become a new hallmark.’ In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy.
What we can learn from the life of Uruguay’s former guerrilla and leftist president Pepe Mujica.
From deftly handling hostile Donald Trump to securing real economic gains for workers, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum ends her first year in office with remarkable 80% approval rating. Now the real fight for Mexico’s economic sovereignty begins
A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin’s Freedom Budget is the key to understanding the appeal of the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor. The class-based universalistic politics of the socialists of the 60s and ’70s hold important lessons for today.
Outclassed is a monument to the very elitism it seeks to challenge.
A surprising number of Andrew Cuomo’s allies, donors, and friends have close ties to the late pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Polling shows mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a commanding lead with Jewish New Yorkers, but you won’t read about it in the paper of record.
Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate map
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