What we’re reading this Mother’s Day weekend Kim Yi Dionne - May 10, 2024 A crowd-sourced list of scholarly works on politics and motherhood.
Will protests over the Israel-Hamas war shift U.S. policy? Marc Lynch, Jeremy Pressman, and Jay Ulfelder - October 27, 2023 Two experts share their insights on the growing number of U.S. protest events.
Protesting for reproductive rights on International Women’s Day? Here are some lessons from the Women’s March. Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson - March 8, 2022 Here’s what my research found
These were our 10 most popular posts of 2021 E.J. Graff - December 29, 2021 Readers were very interested in Jan. 6, the former guy’s hold on the Republican Party, and race
Critics claim BLM protests were more violent than 1960s civil rights ones. That’s just not true. Kerby Goff and John D. McCarthy - October 12, 2021 But the media coverage of the two eras was quite different
The Trump years launched the biggest sustained protest movement in U.S. history. It’s not over. Tommy Leung, Nathan Perkins, Jeremy Pressman, Jay Ulfelder, and Erica Chenoweth - February 7, 2021 Here’s what we learned by counting the protests during the past four years.
These were our 10 most popular posts of 2020 E.J. Graff - December 31, 2020 Readers were very interested in elections, successions, and a virus we hadn’t heard of just a year ago.
Guinea’s president claims he won reelection. Thousands of Guineans disagree. Lisa Mueller - October 30, 2020 Electoral protests in Africa rarely end up ousting an incumbent who defies term limits
How the coronavirus pandemic helped the Floyd protests become the biggest in U.S. history Maneesh Arora - August 4, 2020 People who lost money or jobs because of the pandemic response were more likely to protest with Black Lives Matter
This year’s low oil prices will hurt these countries the most Jeff D. Colgan and Emily Meierding - April 6, 2020 We looked at these 3 factors.