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The US may be experiencing democratic backsliding. Around the world, nonviolent civil movements exist to support democracy and protect fellow citizens.
Minnesotans from all walks of life, including suburban moms, veterans and protest novices, have bucked their ‘nice’ stereotype to speak out.
In 1970, National Guard troops killed four protesters at Kent State University. In 2026, federal agents killed two Minneapolis protesters. Public reaction to the deaths was significantly different.
Cities aren’t just places where multiple crises may collide. They’re also places where people develop ways to navigate them.
Forty years of data suggests atrocities are on the rise globally.
Daniel Cueto-Villalobos speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the origins of people in Minneapolis coming together to protect their neighbours.
Musicians are giving voice to the urgency of Minneapolis. America has a long history of political protest in song.
A ‘domestic terrorism’ label that comes before the facts teaches the public to treat the term as propaganda rather than factual diagnosis.
Federal immigration raids in Minnesota prompted a social backlash. But the business community is largely hedging its bets due to a changed political calculus.
The singer’s song about the killings in Minneapolis translates private loss into a collective experience rapidly shared through social media.
State resistance to federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota illustrates how federalism keeps authority divided and disputed.
Clergy demonstrating against ICE in Minneapolis have turned to classic ‘freedom songs’ – the music associated with protests ever since the Civil Rights Movement.
A policing scholar and former FBI special agent lays out the established principles of policing and constitutional law that govern how federal immigration enforcement efforts should be carried out.
Comparisons of Trump to Hitler have become common. But some of Trump’s policies may more closely resemble those of Francisco Franco of Spain, says a Spanish scholar.
Video evidence flatly contradicts the Trump administration’s account of Alex Pretti’s death.
When protesters experience repression and violence, whether or not they have legal education can help determine continued involvement in a protest movement.
ICE, created in response to 9/11, meets most definitions of paramilitary forces. Critics worry it’s gone beyond its writ of immigration enforcement.
Children with a parent or family member who is detained, or are part of a drawn-out immigration court case, are twice as likely to have anxiety as young adults.
Since the republic’s beginning, it has been uncontested law that to invade someone’s home, the government needs a warrant reviewed and signed by a judicial officer. ICE is turning that law on its head.
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