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The American people aren't looking for militants and vanguards, they want a full-service Occupy.

Connor Guy on Washington’s same-sex marriage victory, Reed Brody on the persecution of Baltasar Garzón

Washington has become the seventh state to allow same-sex couples to wed. But the National Organization for Marriage will fight the new law.

American Dreamers is a heartfelt assessment of the history of the social movements and individuals who challenged the established order of their day.

Will the new president's mega-million-dollar makeover of the main library scare off scholars and leave the branches begging?

Occupy Wall Street has exposed a system that regards people as disposable, but not usually so literally.

Civil disobedience says, in effect, that the law is not sacred when a better world is at stake.

How the 99 percent won in the hottest election of 2011.

Jonathan Raban has made a persona out of the self that feels nowhere at home.

As Seattle police chief in 1999, my disastrous response to the WTO protests should have been a cautionary tale. Yet our police forces have only become more militarized.