New Hampshire joined an increasingly lengthy list of states that have launched their own secession movements this week. The New Hampshire Independence Movement, or NHEXIT, said it rejects the ...

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 ...

Americans engaged in nationwide protests on Presidents' Day 2025 as part of a movement known as 50501. If that name confused you, you're not alone. Although the protests were clearly political and ...

There are currently secessionist movements active in 12 U.S. states campaigning either for full independence, to form a new state or to merge with an existing state, according to one self-styled "self ...

Other peoples have risen. Other peoples have risen up to defend their rights, their dignity, and their democracies. In the past 50 years, they’ve done it in Poland, South Africa, Lebanon, South Korea, ...

New York’s highest court recently overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, saying the judge allowed testimony about unrelated allegations against the former Hollywood mogul. Lolita Buckner ...

The U.S. government has long had an ambivalent approach toward economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR). The United States played a central role in articulating these rights and ensuring that they ...

In order to meet the dire challenges that face us, social movements are going to need new and creative strategies. We are going to need groups that are willing to escalate and take risks. And when ...

The fervent protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict that have gripped the nation’s conscience in the past weeks, engulfing American college campuses, exemplify deeply held convictions among young ...

A class focusing on “social movements and protests” at a Vermont school district has a unit discussing “Palestinian social movements,” according to documents obtained by the grassroots organization ...