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Soldier

How the United States military has become a global police force for the superrich and superpowerful.

Voter suppression efforts in Virginia and Florida have galvinated activists to fight harder to protect--and expand--the vote in 2016.

Mario Monti

The sad truth is that disarming and defeating Silvio Berlusconi remains the country’s first priority.

Protest in Arizona

The early twenty-first century will be remembered as an era of tumult and protest.

Broward Detention Facility

While Washington debates a grand immigration resolution, some activists are putting their bodies on the line to free those in detention today.

Yuri Shevchuk

The well-known musician talks about the adoption ban, Pussy Riot and the future of the opposition movement.

We Are Undocumented America: Fighting for Immigration Reform in 2013

Against the backdrop of record deportations, undocumented activists outline what it would take to make immigration reform both comprehensive and meaningful.

Barack Obama

From Cuba to climate change to criminal justice, progressives must push the president to act—and forge a better future.

Shawn Francis Peters’s The Catonsville Nine.

In his second inaugural address, the president stood for collective action, solidarity, social justice. Now let’s make him act on it.

Blogs

Three Oregonians testifed in the Senate about the lives of the working poor and the state of the American Dream.

June 7, 2013

Society is not post-racial. Barack and Michelle Obama need to stop telling young people of color otherwise.

June 5, 2013

Turkish protesters have now taken to the popular non-profit fundraising site Indiegogo with a new campaign to build momentum on what some are calling a fledgling revolution.

June 4, 2013

We're all upset about Game of Thrones. What if we felt the same way about Turkey?

June 4, 2013

As the Turkish people clash with authorities, the world rises in solidarity.

June 3, 2013

Their crime: "failing to follow college officials' instructions" about protesting.

May 31, 2013

Student groups and their allies confronted Sallie Mae at its annual shareholders meeting yesterday. 

May 31, 2013

Here’s what you can do to help save Beatriz, the victim of “pro-life” orthodoxy on overdrive.

May 30, 2013

A dozen people were arrested today protesting the Obama administration’s continued detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants.

May 29, 2013

State legislatures across the US are proposing bills that serve to debilitate statewide student associations and other student advocacy organizations.

May 29, 2013