How Kyle Chapman, a 41-year-old Trump supporter, became the meme "Based Stickman."

Republican lawmakers are trying to criminalize dissent. Does this herald a larger and more dangerous backlash against free speech?

History shows that civil disobedience and mass protests are more effective in the long run than black-bloc tactics.

Americans keep using a political buzzword—without knowing what it means.

What we can do, from Congress to the streets

When no one is arrested, it's often because no one wants to arrest them.

The activist left was anemic under Bush, but flourished under Obama.

Donald Trump should have spurred liberals to fight. Instead, they bought a lot of swag.

Clashes at sports stadiums between white crowds and Black Lives Matter protesters proved that “white fragility” wasn’t a moment, but a movement.

Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric invokes a long history of political violence in America.

Across the country, from Standing Rock to New York, protesters are claiming space to build “the community we want to live in.”

Cecily McMillan was arrested during the protest in Zuccotti Park and spent 58 days in jail. Five years after it began, she considers what Occupy achieved—and why it didn’t go far enough.

Startups often have to choose between being profitable and being humane.