Is green the new red?
A new book traces several stories about the radical environmental movement and the responses of the U.S. government, raising issues about civil liberties and tactics of social protest.
Troy Davis and the new abolitionists
In the fight to save Troy Davis's life, a new abolitionist movement is born.
Millions make change
The initiatives and actions of the American people were an essential ingredient in the progressive-democratic thrust in the 1930s and 1960s. The same is true today.
New York same-sex marriage law takes giant step for civil rights
New York took a jump into the 21st century as Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill June 24 legalizing same-sex marriage.
Barack Obama and the FBI
Proposed new FBI rules pose a threat to civil libeties and the democratic movement for change.
No such thing as too big for justice
The conservative-dominated Supreme Court ruled that Wal-Mart is too big to face class action justice, but America's workers think otherwise.
Republican-dominated flash mob draws support, criticism
Republican operatives seem to have found a new organizing tool: dancing in the dark at the Jefferson Memorial.
150 years later, a new battle over labor
Our country today, April 12, marks the 150th anniversary of the official start of the Civil War with the firing on Fort Sumter.
The Civil War, our fiery trial
150 years ago today, the first shots of the American Civil War were fired.
