“Social Movement Targeting and Policy Outcomes: Black Mobilization and the War on Poverty in the U.S. South, 1965–68.” Social Problems, advance online version, September 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaf035. With Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz.
“Want to Stop Trump’s Attacks on the NLRB? History Shows Strikes Are the Answer.” Truthout, May 10, 2025.
“What It Will Take to Stop Trump’s Assault on Coal Miners (and the Rest of Us).” Common Dreams, May 2, 2025.
“Social Movements Constrained Trump in His First Term – More Than People Realize.” The Conversation, March 18, 2025.
“Black Economic Boycotts of the Civil Rights Era Still Offer Lessons on How to Achieve a Just Society.” The Conversation, July 1, 2024.
“The Threat of Democracy on Campus at UMass.” The Nation, May 21, 2024.
(Review): Keeping the March Alive: How Grassroots Activism Survived Trump’s America, by Catherine Corrigall-Brown. Contemporary Sociology 53, no. 1 (2024): 35–36.
“Brandon Johnson Won in Chicago. Now His Movement Will Have to Beat Capital Strikes.” Jacobin, April 12, 2023.
“Georgia’s Voter Suppression Is Sparking Boycotts. History Shows They Can Work.” Truthout, April 9, 2021.
“When Black Movements Win, Everybody But the 1% Wins.” Truthout, December 24, 2020. With Megan L. Jordan, Joshua Murray, and Michael Schwartz.
“To Push Biden Left, We Must Build Movements to Challenge His Corporate Backers.” Truthout, November 21, 2020.
“Leveraging Power.” Interview. Against the Grain, November 3, 2020.
“Workers and Consumers Have Forced Republican Governors to Mandate Masks.” Jacobin, September 13, 2020. With Michael Schwartz.
“How Local Civil Rights Protests Produced an Increase in War on Poverty Spending.” Jacobin, September 10, 2020. With Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz. (Excerpted from Levers of Power)
“Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs on the Economic Elite.” Interview by Justin Vassallo. Truthout, August 23, 2020.
“How the 99% Can Force the 1% to Defeat COVID-19.” Salon, July 12, 2020. With Michael Schwartz.
“History Shows That Sustained, Disruptive Protests Work.” YES! Magazine, July 8, 2020.
“The Cops Can Be Defeated – But Not By Taking Obama’s Advice.” Jacobin, June 17, 2020.
“Targeting the Corporations, Not the Politicians: Social Movement Strategy for a Plutocratic Era.” Jacobin, May 18, 2015. With Michael Schwartz.
“A Neglected Mechanism of Social Movement Political Influence: The Role of Anticorporate and Anti-Institutional Protest in Changing Government Policy.” Mobilization 19, no. 3 (2014): 239-60. With Michael Schwartz.
“How ‘Partnership’ Weakens Solidarity: Colombian GM Workers and the Limits of UAW Internationalism.” WorkingUSA 17, no. 2 (2014): 239-60. With Diana C. Sierra Becerra.
“Demolishing the Mythology around the Vietnam Antiwar Movement” (review of Penny Lewis, Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory). Waging Nonviolence, January 13, 2014.
“Turning Michigan Into Colombia: The Global Assault on Workers and the Prospects for Solidarity.” ZNet, December 26, 2012.
Review of Richard Seymour, American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism. ZNet, May 26, 2012.
“The Last, Best Hope on Earth: The Popular Uprisings of 2011 and the ‘Optimism of Uncertainty.’” ZNet blog, December 28, 2011.
“The Violence That Never Happened: Occupy Wall Street and the Selective Outrage of the New York Times.” NYTimes eXaminer/ZNet blog, November 18, 2011.
“To Repress or Co-Opt? OWS Media Coverage Mirrors Splits within the 1 Percent.” The Indypendent (November 2-22, 2011), 15.
“167 Million People Support Occupy Wall Street: The Time Is Ripe for a Mass Movement.” ZNet/Indypendent blog, October 15, 2011.
“The Impact of Occupy Wall Street: Some Early Indicators.” The Indypendent, October 11, 2011.
“The Power of Disobedience and the Value of Solidarity.” THINK magazine (Stony Brook University), March 28, 2011. See also photos available here.
“Army Enlistment Drops, Again.” ZNet, October 20, 2010.
“Counter-Recruitment Season.” ZNet blog, August 14, 2010.
“Nurturing the ‘Healthy Nucleus’: Thoughts on How to Engage with the White Working Class.” ZNet blog, January 22, 2010.
Review of Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster. ZNet, January 4, 2010.
“Listening to the Radicals: US History’s Lessons on Compromise and the ‘Politically Impossible.’” ZNet, September 10, 2009.
“The US Antiwar Movement: Toward a Critical Self-Assessment.” ZNet blog, February 23, 2009.
“The March of the Dead.” Z Magazine (May 2008).
Kevin A. Young 