By carrying My Autobiography, Dipke appeared to anchor his activism in the ideals of equality, dignity, education, and social ...

The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people ...

No Place for Pilgrims” by Mike Marshall is the story of a heinous crime and a teenage promise that became a reporter’s quest.

Edgar Allan Poe lived a life of hardship, financial instability, and loss. Despite inventing many elements of the modern ...

Social activism and jazz have a long mutual history that arguably reached an apex with the resistance music of the '60s. On record, that music found a home at labels such as Impulse! and ESP-Disk. At ...

As a 71-year-old grandmother, my knees didn’t cooperate when police lifted me to arrest me at the state Capitol in Harrisburg on May 4. I was there as part of a peaceful anti-corruption protest ...

In September 2025, the Trump administration filed a civil Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (or FACE Act) case against pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside a New Jersey synagogue. And in ...

As the nation approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, a new book by Dennis G. Pregent looks back to one of its most divided chapters. Pregent is scheduled to offer an overview of the ...

The explosion of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools has provoked both hopes and anxieties about the potential benefits and harms of this technology. In advanced economies, people are almost ...

Civil Disobedience is a project initiated by New York bassist David Ambrosio, showcasing the works of progressive jazz composers from the late 1960s Blue Note Era. By performing the politically ...

Thoreau's refusal to support what he saw as injustice culminates in his essay "Civil Disobedience." After refusing to pay four years of poll taxes, Thoreau is briefly imprisoned. Thoreau is adamantly ...