Protests everywhere

The tactics of today's protests have moved on from the strict nonviolence that characterized would-be democratic revolutions from the mid-1980s until the early days of the Arab Spring nine years ago.

Hong Kong protesters march against the government's extradition bill, which was formally withdrawn on Oct. 23.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 31, 2019

Journalists don’t just travel in packs; they write in packs, too. And what they’re writing this week is endless pipe-sucking ruminations about what’s driving the seemingly synchronized outbreak of protests in a large number of very different countries around the...

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