In Minnesota, poorly trained, heavily armed and trigger-happy men ICE agents target anyone non-white. It's misogyny, racism and state terror.

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

A new report argues the while increasing politicization of university governing boards has contributed to the erosion of academic freedom in recent years, boards also have the potential to adopt frame...

Podcast Episode · White Picket Fence · 10/30/2025 · 42m

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.

America is facing a gender backlash—a backlash so swift and severe, it feels more like a whiplash. Right now, no group is more at risk than trans Americans. On his first day back in the White House, T...

In this second of a two-part series on analyzing Trump 2.0’s first 100 days in office, we share insights from PRA’s researchers about how MAGA weaponizes gender to entrench authoritarianism.

Zane McNeill & Riley Clare Valentine Volume 27.2 (download PDF) Abstract This paper compares both Hungary’s and the United States’ treatment of journalists’ freedom of expression and freedom of speech...

In her new book, an expert on violent extremism lays out evidence that gender-based bigotry fuels hate — so national security officials need to do something about it.

This project explores how authoritarian movements leverage and weaponize gender to divide society and opposition movements, launder and normalize social hierarchies, reshape cultural norms, and lay th...

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

President Trump downplayed domestic disputes in a speech, suggesting they inflate D.C. crime statistics. Critics argue this undermines the seriousness of domestic violence.

When Higher Education Labor United was proposed in 2021, the major issues facing higher education were rising tuition, student debt, widespread reliance on contingent faculty, attacks on tenure, threa...

A magazine of Black politics and culture

In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “Gender and Authoritarianism: A Framework for Analysis and Action” by Annie Wilkinson, as part of our ongoing From the Archives series. From the A...

To meet this moment in US history, we need to revisit the rich – and successful – tradition of nonviolent disruption

In this wide-ranging piece covering the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, PRA researchers recap the state’s authoritarian gains and sweeping repressive policies, from LGBTQ rights to ...

Reflections on a brief sojourn

Nearly 10,000 women signed up for active duty in 2024, an 18% jump from the previous year, while male recruitment increased by just 8%, the data shows.

A mother and her three children were seized by ICE in a pre-dawn raid near Trump’s border czar Tom Homan’s home, despite deep roots in their community. After ten days in a Texas detention center and a...

Viktor Orban expelled Central European University from Hungary. Now, Donald Trump is re-creating his playbook.

Some of the desires that motivate the common life of humans are so fierce they might be gods.