Today on Commotion, Slate columnist Carl Wilson and podcaster Vish Khanna join guest host Radheyan Simonpillai to talk about ...

It isn’t about soldiers going overseas, or even about war in the abstract. It is about Americans confronting Americans. It is ...

In his latest single, "Streets of Minneapolis," Bruce Springsteen offers Americans a soundtrack to the liturgy of protest.

Springsteen has repeatedly turned moments of violence and injustice into songs that demand moral reckoning ...

Bruce Springsteen’s shift away from rock and roll in the early 1980s produced one of his most introspective and haunting albums, Nebraska, and featured a song that would come to define 1980s folk rock ...

Originally published Sept. 15, 1988 in the Bergen Record. One was a wiry, white Oklahoma singer-songwriter who tapped into the struggles of those made homeless by drought and the Depression. The other ...

During tough times, protest songs can bring us together and spur us to action ...