Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. The civil rights leader helped drag this nation out of the shadow of its most overt racism and left behind a legacy that ...

Is civil disobedience, the refusal to obey the law deliberately and publicly, ever acceptable? It seems like there is a real tension in holy writings between obedience to government and following your ...

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 ...

We currently live in a nation whose leader is accused of, and is actively being investigated for, colluding with a nation that for decades has been considered an active hostile enemy of our own.

They didn’t illegally camp out in local parks or on college campuses, as many protesters did across the U.S. recently. But back in 1773, the Boston Tea Partiers broke the law when they protested ...

2022 may be remembered as the year that climate protests got weird. Activists prowled cities in the dead of night, using lentils to deflate the tires of thousands of SUVs. They glued themselves to ...

More than 300 activists from Extinction Rebellion have been arrested in London as the environmental group launches a two-week campaign of civil disobedience in the English capital. Extinction ...

I’m very sorry to tell Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) that the protestors who disrupted the opening day of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings are not guilty of “mob rule” as he ...