Today’s technologies are reigniting the kind of grassroots activism that is deeply rooted in trust and solidarity, one block, one text message, one video at a time. It is also a profoundly American ...

Labor’s big 2025 victory sparked high hopes for significant reform. But real change is not so easy – especially in our time of high grievance and permanent campaigning.

And yet Minneapolis also offers a compelling answer to the question that democracy-loving Americans have asked for the past ...

A ridge, a line marking a limit, that accompanies all uprisings because, by definition, we do not know when and how they are going to fall. What makes us glimpse this phase is that the yellow vests’ ...

Whatever the term, historians largely agree: The United States was born out of protest 250 years ago and has been propelled forward by raucous social movements, from abolition to civil rights, ever ...

The movement of the yellow vests seems to confirm a break in the historical thread of class struggles. It had already been initiated world-wide by the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement and the ...

Labor historian Jeremy Brecher on the strategy, potential and challenges of mass social strikes following ICE's murder of Renee Good.

A new study has been published in a book exploring the architectural legacy of the Temperance movement. Temperance was a 19th Century social movement that looked to combat alcohol's devastating ...

Women protest gender norms as South Korea’s 4B movement sparks global conversations. (Image generated with Google Gemini) 4B movement in South Korea: Feminism was a movement that is often traced back ...

In this episode, Jamila M. Porter, DrPH, MPH, Chief of Staff and Principal Investigator of MADE for Health Justice at the de Beaumont Foundation, and Aysha Dominguez Pamukcu, JD, Policy Fund Director ...

Recent Harvard alumna Gabriela Nguyen started a movement to help people quit social media. The 24-year-old grew up in the Silicon Valley. She's behind the growing "Appstinence," tech resistant ...

Holding political office is not the same as wielding political power—especially for the left. To win bold demands, social movements must go on the offensive. Holding political office is not the same ...