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What Happened to the Global Uprisings of a Decade Ago?
December 23, 2020
For a few months in 2010-2011, the “suffocating certainty” that there is no future was set aside; a decade later, the people on the streets seek a future that is a break from the insufferable present.
Democrats Have Found Their Own Autocrat
February 20, 2020
As mayor of New York City, Bloomberg governed as an authoritarian, from his draconian and racist stop-and-frisk policy to his heavy-handed crackdown on Occupy Wall Street.
What Would a Yellow Vest Movement Look Like in the United States?
January 8, 2019
People in the US might not be wearing yellow vests, but we know from other recent protest movements, people are willing to shut down streets and highways and stop business as usual. More may participate if a radicalizing moment ensues now that they have seen the model work in France.