Tag: trump
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Protest in Trump’s America
(and what’s missing from the pro-democracy movement) This week, Arman Azedi and I published a research brief about civic participation and protest in America. In the piece, we analyze data that were collected from over 23,000 Americans in spring 2026 as part of the Democracy for All project. The dataset is a treasure trove of…
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Earth to Trump: You Can’t Cancel Climate Change
Yesterday, President Trump eliminated the endangerment finding that classified greenhouse gases as air pollutants. This finding was the basis for federal climate policy in the United States and made it possible to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Without it, the rules that regulate emissions standards for vehicles, power plants, and fossil fuel…
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Resistance 2.0 Pushes Back
This weekend, I published a piece in The Guardian that discusses how activists participating in the Resistance to the second Trump Administration are getting more confrontational. In it, I discuss data collected from participants in the Free America Walkout on January 20th that shows how Resisters (yes, most participants in the walkout continued the trend…
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Will the Resistance Rise Again?
That’s the question that journalists have been asking me since November 5th. We are about to enter the weekend before the inauguration and young people have been causing trouble from Los Angeles to Washington, DC (while the wildfires continue to burn). This weekend, the People’s March will coordinate over 200 marches across the US on…
