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The protests in Wisconsin have inspired a new generation of candidates—and they’re winning.

Response to Tom Hayden’s “Participatory Democracy,” with Hayden’s reply, and to Linda Darling-Hammond’s “Redlining Our Schools.” Plus a couple historical corrections.

On its fiftieth anniversary, the founding declaration of SDS echoes today in democracy movements around the world.

Campus spies. Pepper spray. SWAT teams. Welcome to Repress U, class of 2012.

Unless the movement gets more strategic about its image, it may end up talking to itself.

Hamza Kashgari’s persecution—merely for tweeting uncertainty about his religious faith—exposes the cynicism and brutality of the kingdom’s royal-clerical rulers.

Law enforcement appears to be regularly sending subpoenas to social media companies. This time, the target found out about it.

The brash webzine +972 is challenging a political and media culture that has moved steadily to the right.

Forcing the Komen reversal was huge—but it was a campaign born of outrage, not ambitious vision.

With Karen Handel's resignation, online feminism's victory against the giant cancer charity is complete.