Alongside the cultural turn, many social movement organizations continue to engage directly with politics. Aspirational goals notwithstanding, in order to improve conditions they devote much of their ...

A new platform uses machine learning to identify and map social interactions, unlocking new ways to study behavioral ...

Social justice movements play an important role in creating policy reforms and shifting social norms, but often face conflicts that mirror broader social struggles for equality and liberation. Social ...

Understanding when movements succeeded during Trump’s first term is important for identifying how activists can effectively oppose Trump policy in his second administration. Another important ...

Social movements are “always imperfect,” Gordon ... But no other kind of political activity, she concludes, has done more “to make democracy inclusive and participatory – to make American ...

Black Lives Matter co-founders Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors on the birth of the first social media movement and how it paved the way for a convergence of feminism and racial justice.