On Saturday, emboldened by the white nationalists and neo-Nazis who came out in droves to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, 20-year-old James Fields, an admirer of Nazi concentration camps, plowed his car straight into a crowd of counter-protesters,…
There are a lot of people to thank for last week’s failure to pass the Obamacare replacement and repeal bill in the Senate, including the three Republican senators who broke with party lines to vote against the bill. But the role that activists played—particularly women and advocates for disability rights—cannot be…
The G20 summit is underway, and shit is popping off in Hamburg. Unfortunately, the Trumps have been experiencing a few challenges on the journey.
One of the opening questions in Jeff Sessions’ hearing today was: does Jeff Sessions like Jason Bourne or James Bond movies? (He likes neither, but he does enjoy a good David Ignatius paperback, te-he; it was one of the few unequivocal truths we learned from that hearing). In any case, it was a setup for Republican…
On Tuesday afternoon, Republican Rep. Darrell Issa’s opponent in next year’s congressional election tweeted a photo that appeared to show Issa standing on the roof of an office building filming protestors on his phone, an arresting image that was quickly associated with a very good scene from The Office.
The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has decided to remove one of its new sculptures, Scaffold by the white artist Sam Durant, due to protests from many Native American artists and tribal groups.
A scheduled talk by Ann Coulter for April 27 was cancelled by UC Berkeley, citing safety concerns around protests to her very presence. On Twitter, Coulter insisted she would be giving her speech come hell-or-high-water. The university has now offered to have her at another date, but she is very unhappy with their…
An appearance by cultural scourge and talking head Ann Coulter at U.C. Berkeley was cancelled Wednesday by officials concerned for student safety, the Washington Post reports.
After being roundly panned for a heroically tone-deaf and appropriative ad in which Kendall Jenner, social justice warrior, initiates world peace by handing a can of soda to a curiously underdressed cop, Pepsi has issued a few statements to clear the air. This was clearly tough, given that Pepsi is still the same…
Thirteen members of the International Women’s Day Strike were arrested outside of Trump Tower in Manhattan this earlier this afternoon, according to the NYPD.
As he announced he would be doing in January, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi skipped this year’s Academy Awards ceremony to protest Trump’s disaster of a travel ban. Farhadi’s brilliant A Separation won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2012, and tonight his The Salesman won in that same category.
On Thursday, businesses across the country shut down in solidarity with “A Day Without Immigrants,” during which immigrants and allies protested Trump’s Muslim Ban, ICE arrests, and the many threats against immigrants from the administration.
MANHATTAN—On Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of New York City teenagers walked out of their high schools and headed to lower Manhattan where they protested Donald Trump’s immigration and refugee ban.
At sundown on Sunday, as protesters remained gathered at Detroit Metro Airport to demonstrate against Donald Trump’s block of citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S., demonstrators joined together to help the Muslims among them participate in their sunset prayer.
MANHATTAN—Hours after Donald Trump signed two executive orders cracking down on undocumented immigrants, an estimated 3,000 people packed into Washington Square Park for an emergency rally on Wednesday night. More than two dozen elected public officials, civil rights activists, and faith leaders gathered under the…
A Minnesota House committee meeting was briefly adjourned after protesters—furious with the passing of a bill that would allow the government to sue protesters to cover law enforcement costs—overtook the meeting.
In the same week that Americans participated in possibly the largest demonstration in US history, The Intercept’s Spencer Woodman reports Republican lawmakers in at least eight states are targeting protesters with harsher penalties. The proposals are mainly in response to the Dakota Pipeline and Black Lives Matter…
There were some generally valid critiques of the Women’s March on Washington this weekend; primarily, the centering of white women in the media and amongst themselves. The notion that the need for protest has “just begun” with the election of Donald Trump, too, was deserving of critique, particularly considering A)…
Rudy Giuliani is doing his part to spin the Women’s March by saying he doesn’t know what all these women are even talking about. To be fair though, it rarely seems like Giuliani knows what anyone is talking about.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—One day after Donald Trump was inaugurated, more than half a million people flowed onto the streets of D.C. under a cloud of knitted pink pussy hats to participate in the Women’s March on Washington—a number far beyond organizers’ estimates, and one that embarrassed the shit out of the decidedly …
