Tag: protest

Columns

When Gandhi Was Wrong

Rafia Zakaria

June 12, 2020

There is no universal resistance strategy.

The Riots This Time

Rafia Zakaria

June 05, 2020

In the so-called land of the free and the home of the brave, the president calls for “domination.”

The Un-Election Year

Jake Bittle

June 02, 2020

Has electoralism ever rung more hollow?

Springtime for Empire

Tom Stevenson

May 12, 2020

Noah Feldman’s history of the Arab Spring is willfully blind to American imperialism.

Terminal Diagnosis

Holmes Chan

February 25, 2020

For many Hongkongers, 2019 was a grueling emotional journey that changed how they viewed themselves and the city they call home.

The Long Arm of the Law

Lyle Jeremy Rubin

January 27, 2020

The dangerous rise of the global “good cop.”

Letter from Hong Kong

Jaime Chu

September 20, 2019

Reflections on a new normal

Puerto Rico Was Ready

Alicia Kennedy

July 25, 2019

The protests in Puerto Rico are about much more than Ricardo Rosselló.

Striking at the End of the World

Robert Raymond

March 25, 2019

The direct-action climate change movement Extinction Rebellion wants you to withdraw your consent to be governed.

Jeering White Boys

Rafia Zakaria

January 24, 2019

The smirk seen 'round the world tells us something about Trumpism.

A Telling Moment

Rafia Zakaria

May 08, 2018

“This is not a very beautiful city,” the young activist driving me from the train station to the campus of the University of Zaragoza said apologetically as soon as we were in the car. She was right. I had just left Granada, redolent with orange blossoms and Moorish ...

A Metaphor for the Planet

Jack Downey

April 19, 2018

David Buckel's memory is dangerous to environmental organizations' more moderate calls for legislative gradualism and personal lifestyle change.