civil disobedience

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Commentary As a legal academic I have often been asked when it becomes legally possible to disobey unjust ...

 Commentary Peter Leithart over at the Theopolis Institute invited me to contribute to this “Conversation,” which begins ...

Commentary Seven-foot fencing topped with razor wire will be installed surrounding the U.S. Capitol next week, in advance ...

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News Analysis Constitutional tensions between the authority of governments to use coercive powers to protect public health and ...

Commentary American values, traditional individual liberties, were resurfacing as the pandemic curve flattened out. A barber in Michigan ...

HONG KONG—Nine leaders of Hong Kong's 2014 civil disobedience "Occupy Central" movement go on trial on Nov. 19 ...

Edited on Dec. 8 with changes to the upcoming Admiralty clearing. Three Hong Kong pro-democracy movement student protesters ...

The occupation phase of the Umbrella Movement could be over. Whether it will be by police or protester ...

As the Hong Kong government continues to clear democracy protesters from the streets, drawing the world’s attention to ...

Don't expect the Hong Kong government to give in, CE Leung Chun-ying tells student protesters.

Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters faced off with Hong Kong police late Sunday, stepping up their movement for genuine ...

The Chinese regime has been trying to suppress Hong Kong’s student-led pro-democracy movement using many of the same ...

The clearing of the second-largest protest site held by pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong continued Wednesday morning in ...

Updated on Wednesday, Nov. 26 3:20 p.m. EST with quotes from Joshua Wong and Lester Shum after the ...

Hong Kong authorities cleared street barricades from a pro-democracy protest camp in the volatile Mong Kok district for ...

The British never gave Hong Kong democracy when it was a colony so why are the students of ...

A netizen is rallying supporters for an act of violence at the Admiralty occupation site.

Another song of the umbrella movement is timed well to speak to the fatigue now setting in, after ...

Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping called Hong Kong's democracy protests illegal, and cautioned foreign governments from "interfering," ...

Here's an archive of daily Umbrella Movement events from day one till day fifty-four.

The hacker group Anonymous leaked the names, phone numbers, faxes, and email addresses of more than 250 Hong ...