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Politics

The Power of the Party

Founded a century ago, the Chinese Communist Party retains popular support by selectively repressing and responding to social demands.

Macabe Keliher

Global Justice

The Law Ought to Be King

Thailand has been gripped by the largest wave of protest in years, forcing a reckoning between the country’s dual structures of democracy and monarchy.

Peera Songkünnatham

Race

We Should Be Afraid, But Not of Protesters

The rage on display in Minneapolis is not only about police violence. It is also about the country’s utter disregard for the pain of black Americans.

Melvin Rogers

Race

The Minneapolis Uprising in Context

A proper understanding of urban rebellion depends on our ability to interpret it not as a wave of criminality, but as political violence.

Elizabeth Hinton

Global Justice

Uncivil Disobedience in Hong Kong

The protests have been critiqued for their rejection of classic nonviolence—but that may help explain why they has been so successful.

Candice Delmas

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Hong Kong's Umbrella Generation

One of the largest peaceful protest movements in recent world history.

Guobin Yang, Ran Liu

Global Justice

Hong Kong's Umbrella Generation

On one of the largest peaceful protest movements in recent world history.

Guobin Yang, Ran Liu

Class & Inequality, Politics

Protective Bargaining

How to Prevent the Labor Wars

Thomas A. Kochan

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Capitol Insiders

Solidarity and Sleepovers in Madison

Leigh Elion

       

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