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September 5, 2019
Osita Nwanevu
The Grassroots Battle to Save Democracy
As Democrats ponder a number of necessary governmental reforms, an army of progressive organizations is building support among the electorate.
February 7, 2019
Magazine
Alex Press
Big Tech’s Unholy Alliance With the Pentagon
Why Google and other firms still cling to their military contracts
February 6, 2019
Magazine
Sam Adler-Bell
The Story Behind the Green New Deal’s Meteoric Rise
How twelve young activists forced a bold idea into the mainstream of the Democratic Party
November 8, 2018
Magazine
Micah L. Sifry
The Outsider Democrats Who Built the Blue Wave
Grassroots activists have organized a movement stronger than Obama’s, and the midterm elections were just the beginning.
May 18, 2018
Melody Schreiber
The Erin Brockoviches of Ecuador
For these women, environmentalism and women's rights are closely linked: Past drilling projects have resulted in increased assaults, cancer, and infertility.
April 11, 2018
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Hahrie Han
Building a Bigger Tent
An Ohio megachurch’s revival of religious community activism
February 16, 2017
Brian Beutler
Why the Left Needs to Keep Protesting Trump & Co.
Oprah, not activists, may have sunk labor nominee Andy Puzder. But arbitrary events don't set the zeitgeist like mass activism does.
February 7, 2017
Erica Chenoweth
Violence Will Only Hurt the Trump Resistance
History shows that civil disobedience and mass protests are more effective in the long run than black-bloc tactics.
February 1, 2017
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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?
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