We live in an era where a single hashtag can spark a global revolution. The way people organize, protest, and demand change ...

Smartphone video, ICE-tracking apps and 3D-printed whistles have been emblematic of the protests in Minneapolis. Social ...

The U.S. and many other societies are cycling into situations of toxic polarization today; discussion, let alone consensus, often appears impossible and the advantage goes to exclusionary social ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that organized civil society and social ...

Gordon, a noted historian of the United States, seeks to understand how social movements arise and operate, in the belief that these movements have changed the world as significantly as have wars or ...

On a special episode (first released on February 5, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: From conservative social movements such as those tied to prohibition, the Moral Majority evangelicals, and the Tea ...

Holding political office is not the same as wielding political power—especially for the left. To win bold demands, social movements must go on the offensive. Holding political office is not the same ...

Editor’s Note: This article is part of “The Unfinished Revolution,” a project exploring 250 years of the American experiment. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign ...

Solidarity is an idea that is often invoked in progressive political and labor organizing contexts. But where does this idea come from? What does it mean, practically speaking, to be “in solidarity” ...

BKC Faculty Associate Stefania Milan and David Beraldo put the studies of data and social movements in conversation with each other. "Because people’s ‘information diet’ is at the core of public ...

Since the death of Mahsa Jini Amini in 2022, Iranian women have led a women’s rights movement to advocate for gender equality and the expansion of women’s rights in Iranian society, which has gained ...