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Author: Adam Fefer

While Christianity played a key role in the rise of authoritarianism in Poland, many bishops leveraged their positionality and religious rhetoric to oppose the Law and Justice party’s (PiS) more...

Following the success of the Montgomery bus boycotts, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was established to coordinate and support nonviolent direct action. The initial concept of leveraging Black churches’...

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has struggled with responding to attacks on American democracy. The internal denominational culture of the SBC conditioned the rise of Christian nationalism among its members,...

In the lead-up to President Biden’s inauguration, conflicting views of democracy within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints emerged, reflecting existing challenges within the Church and its history...

Amongst the wide array of concerned Americans protesting the Trump administration’s “muslim ban” were hundreds of lawyers who gathered in airports across the nation, conducting legal research and writing motions...

After the American Medical Association (AMA) identified voting as a social determinant of health, doctors have been making voter engagement a part of whole-person health care, helping nearly 50,000 Americans...

Brazil’s doctors first began organizing large-scale resistance to the military regime over the low wages, poor working conditions, and mismanagement of the health sector by the military dictatorship. Capitalizing on...

Author: Adam Fefer

Pakistan’s Lawyers’ Movement offers a model of unity in response to democratic decline; they united around a grievance (autocracy and its threat to judicial autonomy) and strategy (peaceful protests), although...

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, various groups within the legal profession organized to make it tougher for lawyers to use the legal system to overturn elections. The 65...