Activism

Protesters hold signs during a national day of action against Trump administration's mass firing of National Park Service employees at Yosemite National Park, California, on March 1, 2025.

Trump’s War on Public Lands Moves to its Second Phase Trump’s War on Public Lands Moves to its Second Phase

The Great Firing continues—and the next round of layoffs will reveal how much power over public lands the Trump administration will cede to corporations.

Mar 18, 2025 / Lazo Gitchos

Demonstrators from the human rights organization Jewish Voice for Peace are detained by NYPD officers as they hold a civil disobedience action inside Trump Tower in New York on March 13, 2025.

Trump’s Mob-Boss Offer to Us Jews: Accept “Protection”—or Else Trump’s Mob-Boss Offer to Us Jews: Accept “Protection”—or Else

Under the guise of “fighting antisemitism,” Trump is shredding our rights and telling us we are safe.

Mar 18, 2025 / Dave Zirin

Protest Tesla

Protest Tesla Protest Tesla

Street action at Tesla, Route 22, Springfield, NJ, March 1, 2025.

Mar 18, 2025 / OppArt / Karen Guancione

Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center, but Silencing the Arts Will Not Be So Easy

Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center, but Silencing the Arts Will Not Be So Easy Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center, but Silencing the Arts Will Not Be So Easy

Our last best hope for sharing, shaping, and wrangling over independent ideas may turn out to be America’s scrappy and disparate arts spaces—if they can hang on financially.

Mar 18, 2025 / Alisa Solomon

Sherrod Brown: Three decades of talking about the dignity of work wasn’t enough to save him.

How the American Left Became Conservative How the American Left Became Conservative

Against the radical, if reactionary, experiment run from the White House, everyone from Democratic leaders in Congress to MSNBC hosts have turned to the defense of institutions.

Mar 18, 2025 / Michael Kazin

Hundreds of protesters outside of a New York court to protest the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil.

Mahmoud Khalil Is “Ready to Fight” His Unlawful Detention Mahmoud Khalil Is “Ready to Fight” His Unlawful Detention

StudentNation spoke with Shezza Abboushi Dallal, a member of Khalil’s legal defense team, about the status of his case and the government’s attack on freedom of speech.

Mar 18, 2025 / StudentNation / Luca GoldMansour

President Donald Trump joined by cis-women athletes, signing the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order in the East Room at the White House, on February 5, 2025.

Journalist and Trans Athlete Karleigh Webb & Great Point Guards of Yesteryear Journalist and Trans Athlete Karleigh Webb & Great Point Guards of Yesteryear

On this week's episode of Edge of Sports, Karleigh Webb and Arya Shirazi join the show.

Mar 17, 2025 / Podcast / Dave Zirin

Trump Attacks Free Speech on Campus

Trump Attacks Free Speech on Campus Trump Attacks Free Speech on Campus

Jailing protesters won't stop the protests.

Mar 17, 2025 / OppArt / Judy Polstra

Chuck Screwme

Chuck Screwme Chuck Screwme

The Marvelous Mr. Measles.

Mar 14, 2025 / Steve Brodner

Twenty-six years ago, the St. Pat's for All parade in Queens, New York, began as a response to the exclusion of Irish LGBTQ communities from the Fifth Avenue parade. Now it welcomes Irish and Irish American solidarity with Palestinians.

There’s Another St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York—and This One Stands Up to Trump There’s Another St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York—and This One Stands Up to Trump

The St. Pat’s for All parade started when the more famous Fifth Avenue parade barred queer groups. Twenty-six years later, it welcomes Palestinian solidarity organizations.

Mar 14, 2025 / Phoebe Grandi

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