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Annals of a Warming Planet

Everyone Wants to Sell the Last Barrel of Oil

The Keystone XL win—and the Line 3 battle—make clear that cutting off the supply of oil is a key part of the climate fight.
Our Columnists

Across Russia, Pro-Navalny Demonstrations Continue to Build Momentum

The opposition leader’s incantation of “Do not be afraid!” does not mean “There is nothing to fear.”
Our Local Correspondents

Trump Gives New York City Another Reason to Protest

The President’s frantic attempts to undermine the election revived a dwindling protest movement.
Our Columnists

A Night with Occupy City Hall

Organizers want to redirect one-sixth of the N.Y.P.D.’s operating budget—about a billion dollars—and invest it in underfunded communities.
Daily Comment

In Washington, D.C., a Weekend of Growing and Evolving Protests

“The ideal situation would be that people can’t really go back to the way things were before,” one protester said.
Our Local Correspondents

Protesting Past Curfew in New York City

In neighborhoods across Brooklyn and Manhattan, thousands of demonstrators stayed outside for as long as they could.
Comment

Minneapolis, the Coronavirus, and Trump’s Failure to See a Crisis Coming

Like the coronavirus crisis, the riots following George Floyd’s death stemmed not from treacherous unknowns but from the Trump Administration’s failure to learn from even the most recent past.
Our Columnists

The Story of 2019: Protests in Every Corner of the Globe

This year’s demonstrations speak to a need for a new social contract—one that goes beyond traditional political reforms or who sits at the top.
Dispatch

The Battle for a Paycheck in Kentucky Coal Country

A coalition of miners, their families, and labor activists encamped beside a train loaded with a million dollars’ worth of coal, pledging not to move until the miners get the wages they are due.
Personal History

Fake News, 1969: My Infamous Role in the Harvard Antiwar Protests

Thank goodness there are others more optimistic than I am, people willing to engage in civil disobedience like the occupiers of University Hall fifty years ago.
Our Columnists

The Moscow News Site That “Provides Daily Therapy for Living in Russia”

“We help people who are in trouble right now,” Grigory Okhotin, the founder of OVDInfo, said. “But in the process we are also describing the system.”
As Told To

A Witness to Terrorism in Charlottesville

Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Monday, February 13th

News Desk

The History of Crowd Control, and the Cleveland Convention

Portfolio

Ghosts of Gezi

A Reporter at Large

A Botched Operation

The Financial Page

Middle-Class Militants

Fiction

Means of Suppressing Demonstrations

Letter from Cairo

Who Owns the Revolution?

The Wayward Press

Rage Machine