The Great Race Panic
White supremacists are seeing the limits of what they can achieve electorally. Now, the raging fear Trump inflames threatens escalating violence.
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The Mind of Paul Booth, 1943–2018
First in SDS, then in the labor movement, Paul Booth embodied that remarkable, and rare, combination of ideals and strategy. A left that hopes to win has much to learn from his example.
Tom Hayden (1939-2016)
A leader in a movement that was already ambivalent about leadership, Tom Hayden was incandescent—all intensity, all intelligence, full of a righteous indignation that I shared.
Fossil Fuels Off Campus
While fossil fuel companies and their political allies continue to fulminate, they are losing ground with public opinion—thanks in no small part to the divestment movement on college campuses.
The Climate Movement Has Arrived
This post originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. Less than two weeks have passed and yet it isn’t too early to say it: the People’s Climate March changed the social map—many maps, in fact, since hundreds of smaller marches took place in 162 …
Hurling the Little Streets Against the Great: Marshall Berman’s Perennial Modernism
For Marshall Berman, the street was not just the site where modernism was enacted; it was modernism incarnate.
A Charter for the 99 Percent
After November 6, 2012, the big sound rippling around the world was not a chorus of bipartisanship, not a whoop of euphoria, but a collective sigh of relief. Still, it must not be forgotten that nearly half of America’s voters …
A Charter for the 99 Percent
Now, the next phase of a 99 percent movement needs to get—and keep—busy. Why do I say “next phase”? Because the Occupy movement that came about in 2011 has accomplished just about as much of its mission as possible.
Goldman Sachs: Impoverishing Truck Drivers
Todd Gitlin: Goldman Sachs – Impoverishing Truck Drivers
In Chicago, Throwing Down the Gauntlet
Todd Gitlin: In Chicago, Throwing Down the Gauntlet
The Plain Human Hope of Carl Oglesby, 1935-2011
Todd Gitlin: The Plain Human Hope of Carl Oglesby, 1935-2011
Expertise, Dogma, and the Journalism of Crackpot Ideas
Todd Gitlin: Expertise, Dogma, and the Journalism of Crackpot Ideas
Sandmonkey: “Too Stupid to Govern Us”
The easiest Egyptian revolutionaries for a non-Arabic speaking American to find are the young bloggers, wielders of camera-phones, YouTube uploaders, and social-network activists—”shabab al-Facebook,” as they are sometimes known, the Facebook youth credited with the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. They …
Not All the Way out of Afghanistan
Todd Gitlin: Not All the Way out of Afghanistan
A Middle-Class Revolutionary of Tahrir Square
Todd Gitlin: A Middle-Class Revolutionary of Tahrir Square
