U.S. Politics / Elections

Our job is to translate outrage over his agenda into action toward a truly transformational vision.

A new documentary explains how, 40 years ago, Chicago’s first black mayor shattered status-quo politics in his city, offering insights that remain relevant for grassroots movements today.

A conversation with Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce about their new book, Practical Radicals, and the need for the left to embrace a rigorous, multi-pronged strategy for change.

It takes effort to track the impacts of mass mobilizations like #MeToo, Occupy or Black Lives Matter, but understanding social change is impossible without such work.

Scholar and long-time organizer Janice Fine argues that the state must reject “neutrality” and embrace social movements as partners in promoting justice.

By understanding how mainstream political culture co-opts elected officials, grassroots groups can help them resist.

While Republicans have used legislative majorities at the state level to undermine their opposition, the Democratic Party has too often failed to fight back.

As social movements move beyond the default anarchist sensibility that prevailed through Occupy, they must still reckon with hard questions about bureaucracy and cooptation.

In the past five years, abolitionists and advocates of criminal justice reform in Los Angeles County have amassed some impressive victories—laying out a vision for reducing incarceration and providing care that could have national significance.

Understanding the warring factions within the Democratic and Republican Party coalitions is critical for progressives who want to build power.