Protest is as American as apple pie; our country was built on it—literally! From the Boston Tea Party in 1773 to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, and more recently the Women’s March in 2017 and the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, the right to protest has always been one of our most important tools for change. When the government isn’t listening to the will of the people, when elected officials fail us, when faced with injustice—Americans take to the streets.

As March threatens to come in like a lion in our neck of the woods, it also ushers in Women’s History Month—a time to reflect on the...

One of the most concerning legacies of this era has been the growing fusion of political governance with Christian nationalist ideology. ...