Popular uprising have ramifications that go beyond immediate legislative results, and they can alter the climate of political debate.
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Like Bernie Sanders today, Martin Luther King, Jr. considered launching a presidential campaign to oppose military interventionism and promote democratic socialism. Here’s why he decided against it.
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Despite the demonstrated power of sacrifice and disruption, it is rare that groups risk either in significant measure — and even rarer that the two are combined in thoughtful and …
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Every so often, we witness a period of mass insurgency that seems to defy the accepted rules of politics
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Three years after the resignation of Mubarak, the Egyptian Revolution provides a perfect example of what mass, disruptive protest can accomplish—and what it can’t.
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It took years of political evolution for King to understand nonviolence not merely as a moral force, but as an effective strategy for leveraging political change.
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If politicians in Washington, DC refuse to talk about our warming planet, how do we shift the climate of national debate?