“No Kings” Movement

The month of June has been head-spinning for observers of US-politics. We saw a military parade alongside nation-wide protests, a military attack on nuclear sites in Iran, politically motivated murders, immigration raids and fights over the “Big Beautiful Bill” in Congress. This blog post is divided into two parts: a reminiscence of a military parade of a very different kind than displayed in Washington D.C. on June 14; and an interview with Lecia Brooks , former Chief of Staff at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, and historian David Goldfield, Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, on the emerging protest movement. Read more