The following recent happenings in the country tend to exhibit indifference/apathy towards the well being of the hapless masses: 1. The loadshedding in the country suddenly ended, but only after the ...

Playing the role of a riot cop dispersing a peaceful but illegal sit-in on the steps of France's National Assembly, Axel struggled to dislodge a woman whose arms and legs were enmeshed in a Gordian ...

Last month, climate activist group Extinction Rebellion staged protests targeting high-profile sites, including the Wall Street Charging Bull and a Tesla showroom. The group uses civil disobedience to ...

They didn’t illegally camp out in local parks or on college campuses, as many protesters did across the U.S. recently. But back in 1773, the Boston Tea Partiers broke the law when they protested ...

Watching Donald Trump’s disjointed, narcissistic ramble at the United Nations, I kept thinking: “Why don’t the delegates walk out?” After all, he insulted many of their countries. “You’re destroying ...

The concept of civil disobedience, defined as the peaceful refusal to follow a particular law, is most often associated with its greatest practitioner, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But it’s an old ...

“In some cases, the law mandates conduct that is ethically unacceptable. When physicians believe a law violates ethical values or is unjust they should work to change the law. In exceptional ...

It’s worth taking a moment to reflect on what civil disobedience is, and what it isn’t. Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience” held that citizens were responsible for the unjust actions ...