Throughout American history, religion has played a significant role in promoting social reform. From the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century to the civil rights movement of the 20th ...

Imagine a world where the social sector exercises the full measure of its power and influence, fueled by its more than 12 million employees and 64 million volunteers. Imagine people who are fighting ...

It has never been clearer that ideas germinated by social movements exert great force in law and politics in the United States. Examples from the left abound over the last decade. Occupy Wall Street ...

A well-established youth collective in the Global South is planning its next action, and its members are in conversation with a nongovernmental organization (NGO, or, in the United States, nonprofit) ...

The past several years have seen dramatic growth in social movements demonstrating their dissent through public mass mobilization and acts of civil disobedience, from Black Lives Matter and Fridays ...

There is one crucial argument that the climate justice movement carried with it. For a brief period of time, it seemed like it was integrated into the general knowledge of social movements. It wasn’t.

Amid growing threats to our climate, economy, and democracy, one thing has become increasingly clear: those who care about confronting these challenges need to get smarter about strategy. We've seen ...

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 ...

Police officers confront protesters in Hong Kong, where demonstrators were demanding that the government take stronger action to curb the spread of Covid-19. (Miguel Candela / SOPA Images via AP ...

The Tea Party rang in the decade, and President Trump's rallies continue with gusto. In between, America rediscovered its capacity for protest and social action on a grand scale. Why have social ...

Given how social media has been a part of most people’s everyday lives, it should not be surprising to us that social movement can be accomplished effectively online. In this post, my student, Sarah ...