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Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.

Fifty years ago, a protest against the Miss America pageant kicked off a new phase of the women’s liberation movement. We present a narrative history of that landmark protest, as …

A conversation with directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera about their new film, The Infiltrators.

History suggests that the battle over the bailout—which is set to be delivered through a once-obscure Treasury Department mechanism called the Exchange Stabilization Fund—has only just begun.

The thousands of low-wage, hourly, and gig-work employees who are getting sent home amid the crisis need an income guarantee that goes beyond traditional unemployment insurance.

Twenty years ago, demonstrations against the World Trade Organization opened the space for today’s critics of neoliberal capitalism.

Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.

Organizers in labor, immigrant rights, and climate movements seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.

Thirty-five years ago, Central American solidarity activists developed a model for building resistance before disaster strikes. Their efforts may have stopped a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.

Ultimately, finding an optimal tax rate for the super-wealthy is a moral and political issue as much as an economic one.