Mary Poppins first flew down from a hazy London skyline to care for Jane and Michael Banks in a children’s book published in 1934. Julie Andrews immortalised the character on screen in the celebrated ...

One hundred years ago, women won the right to vote in the United States. The women’s suffrage movement took decades of organizing to achieve success, from the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, to mass ...

August marks a century since the ratification and official adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment. This landmark law proclaimed that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be ...

Editor’s Note: Read more stories in our series about women and political power. There she stood, smiling widely in suffragette white: Hillary Clinton, self-appointed glass-ceiling breaker, poised to ...

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The more things change, the more they stay the same, right? That seems to be the resounding message in Sarah Gavron’s (“Brick Lane”) latest, a dull British period piece about the women’s suffrage ...

Long before Wicked reimagined the Witch of the West as a dissident resisting fascism, Oz was a hotbed of political commentary. No, I'm not referring to that dubious old tale that L. Frank Baum wrote ...

The simultaneous eruption of unrest in the United States and Hong Kong in the summer of 2020 has highlighted the promise and contradiction of transnational activism. The complex relationship between ...