Demonstrations, Protests and Riots

July 13, 2022

Packing Pitchforks for the Hamptons

Along for an early morning “billionaire wake-up call” with protesters on Meadow Lane. On Tuesday morning at 5 a.m., before the day’s oysters were unloaded from […]
May 18, 2022

Eileen Myles Watches Over an Ever-Changing New York

Now guarding trees in Lower Manhattan, the poet and author of “Chelsea Girls” says: “Things that might have once been corny to me don’t feel corny […]
May 11, 2022

‘1973 Merch’: How a Year Became Shorthand for Abortion Rights

On “S.N.L.” or at rallies, gear with the date signals support for Roe v. Wade. The story of the women’s movement during the Trump era cannot […]
June 3, 2021

The Wedding Dress Repurposed

How women are fashioning the white dress to bring awareness to a variety of issues. On May 17, at 9 a.m., Vanessa Reiser was in position, […]
May 31, 2021

The Vogueing Protesters of Bogotá, Colombia

“We were scared, but the people and the love from the public was our gasoline to go up there and confront the police,” said one. For […]
March 31, 2021

Prabal Gurung on Anti-Asian Violence, Discrimination and the Duties of Success

The Nepalese-American designer on mistreatment by investors, how he’s kept his business alive and his fears for his mom. Prabal Gurung, the Nepalese-American designer, has been […]
January 7, 2021

Why D.C. Rioters Wore Costumes to the Capitol

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September 15, 2020

A Civil War Political Movement Reawakens — Complete With Capes

In January, the artist Hank Willis Thomas began enigmatically summoning designers, musicians and activists he knew to his studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was […]
September 2, 2020

Jane Fonda, Star of Fire Drill Fridays, Has New Book Out

I wanted to be schooled by Jane Fonda. There was a decent chance that we would get into a Megyn Kelly-type dust-up, where I waded into […]
July 1, 2020

What's an Autonomous Zone?

ImageSeattle police and other workers in the protest zone on July 1, 2020.Credit…Ruth Fremson/The New York Times At first they called it the Capitol Hill Autonomous […]