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February 1, 2017
MagazineThe New Republic
10 Ways to Take on Trump
What we can do, from Congress to the streets
June 20, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Last year saw the most killings of environmental activists on record.
December 17, 2015
Jamil Smith
Black Protesters Have Reinvigorated Campus Activism
Across the country, student protesters joined the fight for racial progress.
December 12, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
While politicians throw confetti, green groups are parsing the details of the climate agreement.
December 11, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Negotiators are still behind closed doors, but environmental activists are already pooh-poohing the climate deal.
December 7, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Are these the world’s worst “climate criminals”?
November 30, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Climate Change Protesters Take to the Streets, Despite Canceled Paris March
November 30, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
How the Environmental Movement Has Changed
November 23, 2015
Jamil Smith
Princeton students are calling out Woodrow Wilson's racism. Good.
September 28, 2015
Fredrik deBoer
College Students Have Forgotten How to Fight the System
Wesleyan activists' response to a newspaper column on Black Lives Matter reflects a broader, worrying shift on campuses
May 28, 2013
Alec MacGillis
This Is How the NRA Ends
A bigger, richer, meaner gun-control movement has arrived
February 19, 2013
Nathaniel Frank
Obama's False 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Narrative
Is the president really the gay rights hero he says he is?
October 19, 1992
Michael Lewis
The Boy in the Bubble
On the road with Dan Quayle
February 18, 1966
Michael Harrington
Mystical Militants
January 14, 1931
Edmund Wilson
An Appeal to Progressives

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