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The Future of Civic Engagement in Climate Action
Sep 29 2026
Author Paul Almeida on social movements and climate change.
Communist and Post-Communist Studies Announces 2026 Global Collaborative Research Award
Sep 22 2026
Authors Pietrzyk-Reeves and Pickering offer conceptual and empirical insights that will be useful for researchers working on civil society, civic participation, and democracy promotion.
Towards a Humbler, Braver and Kinder Science
Oct 21 2025
Author Fernando Racimo explains how scientists around the world are risking their careers, and sometimes their lives, by defying their places of work, and joining struggles for climate, ecological and social justice.
Lessons from Youth Organizers for this Political Moment
Feb 26 2025
If you care about bodily autonomy and self-determination, the current times are very bad. We can learn a lot about what this moment demands of us by looking to youth-led social movements for reproductive justice.
Q&A with Sunaura Taylor, author of Disabled Ecologies
May 30 2024
Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship
Q&A with David Gilbert, author of Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land
May 23 2024
Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed collective control of their land and cultivated diverse agricultural forests on it, repairing the damage do
A Tribute to Paul Farmer: Legendary Global Health Activist and Physician
Feb 22 2022
An inspiring humanitarian, doctor, and advocate of global health equity, Paul Farmer leaves behind an immense legacy. With the tragic news of his passing on February 21, 2022, our Executive Editor Naomi Schneider shares a tribute to his work.By now you might have heard that our author, Paul
The Enduring Power of Hunger Strikes
Dec 20 2021
By Nayan Shah, author of Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger StrikesIn February 1989, I traveled to Durban, South Africa. I was twenty-two years old and had just graduated from Swarthmore college. I was visiting apartheid South Africa on a Thomas J. Watson fellowship to study religion and com
Interview with Jana Lipman, author of In Camps
Jun 18 2021
We're proud to share that the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations has awarded Jana Lipman honorable mention, Ferrell Book Prize for In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates! Learn more about the book in the interview with historian Jana Lipman below, and visit
Author Spotlight: Q&A with Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block, authors of Driving While Brown
Apr 20 2021
Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block have a combined total of twenty years of on-the-ground reporting of Arizona’s painful immigration battles. Both authors covered the landmark Melendres racial profiling lawsuit against Sherrif Arpaio and subsequent legal troubles for the sheriff, in addition