Good Playlist: Political organizing and activism ▶️ Kelly Clancy and Jim Baker - October 10, 2024 Find the songs that inspire you to change the world.
At the Olympics, it’s hard to sideline politics Ethan Scheiner - July 23, 2024 A short history of political protests, boycotts, and IOC bans.
The UN set out to protect human rights 75 years ago Kelebogile Zvobgo - December 10, 2023 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was an important start – but there’s much work still ahead.
What’s so funny about a Russian invasion? Chonlawit Sirikupt - April 6, 2022 Here’s how Kyiv is wielding humor in its information war against Moscow
People around the world are protesting the Russian invasion. Will their protests work? Erica Chenoweth - March 14, 2022 Within Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere, here’s what we know about civil resistance
The U.S. has veered toward — and away from — democracy over time Sarah Gershon, Nadia E. Brown, Larry Berman, and Bruce Murphy - January 11, 2022 Our textbook suggests teaching about the Jan. 6 insurrection with this framing.
30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, some former Soviet-controlled countries are dismantling democracy. What happened? Pauline Jones and Anna Grzymala-Busse - November 8, 2019 How did Russia, populism and ‘illiberal democracy’ creep back in?
Promises on North Korea are easy to make but hard to keep. Here’s why. Andrew Kydd - June 7, 2018 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A commemorative coin featuring President Trump
What North and South Korea can learn from German reunification James Goldgeier - April 28, 2018 South Korea’s Moon Jae-in and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
On Prohibition’s 100th anniversary, here’s a distillation of 3 myths about the temperance movement. Mark Schrad - August 1, 2017 [caption id="attachment_61639" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Women turn out in large numbers,