Repression often energizes resistance and undercuts the legitimacy of elites.

I want to be a member of a thriving and diverse social movement, not a cult or a religion.

Apolitical volunteering is ill-equipped to address the structural causes of depression.

How conservatives won the counter-revolution after 1968—and how they might lose.

A range of neighbor-to-neighbor efforts address basic needs that aren’t met by local government.

The struggle for liberation has never been about safety; justice is gained by confronting reality, however dangerous...

Millennials are confronted by political systems that don’t look like them, speak like them or address their core...

As veganism advances in popular culture it makes sense to shift the movement’s strategies from ‘horror’ to ‘hipster.’

Tear gas turns the square, the march and the public assembly into a toxic space.

We need to believe ourselves capable of something greater than the dehumanizing roles our society has given us.

Memory is the first form of resistance.

We are proud to be Black and Brown, we are proud to be immigrants and refugees, and we are thriving.

Only when myths are revealed as myths can there be a clear-eyed conversation about the best ways forward.

As the Poor People’s Campaign arrives in Washington DC it’s time to celebrate Public Service Day.

Social struggle calls for true transformation, a trading in of old lives for new.

Why are Palestine’s feminists fighting on two fronts?

As a young person, there’s nothing less empowering than listening to an older person tell you how real activism was...

Unless democracy is reinstated as the movement’s guiding principle, organized labor will fail in any form.

Part two: ‘where next?’ Part one on ‘what went wrong’ can be found here.

Alternative forms of charity could have a deeper impact on the forces that underpin moral and social transformation.