crusade

Hearst used his newspaper empire to crusade against animal experimentation and cruelty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Vitamin C was filed away with other “alternative” remedies, and Pauling’s late-career crusade was widely seen as a sad mistake.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

"This is a crusade," says Georgios Samaras, an assistant professor of public policy at King's College London who studies the European and US far right.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

In 2014 the Times’s editors launched an editorial crusade for full legalization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

How far did the tsar’s crusade against magic go?

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado have sought Moretta’s counsel and helped parishioners in their various crusades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

The campaign takes a page from other Rust Belt cities, including Detroit and South Bend, that have undertaken big blight elimination crusades, with varying degrees of success.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

When Richard the Lionheart led crusades to the Middle East they were funded by crippling taxes at home.

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

But as “The Perfect Neighbor” crusades toward its inevitable end, the film’s empathy depletes.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025

Combating mitigation has become one of the great crusades in commercial aviation in the past fifteen years.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Hutchinson said residents have responded in force to his call for emergency sidewalks repairs, just as they did when he crusaded for a crackdown on widespread illegal dumping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

He notes that the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr. crusaded against homosexuality during his 1908-1936 leadership of New York’s Abyssinian Baptist Church — one of the most prominent Black churches in the country.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024

For much of his life he crusaded for an international criminal court, and for laws to end wars of aggression.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2023

Paul Morantz, a California lawyer who crusaded against brainwashing self-help gurus, crooked psychotherapists and menacing cults, including one that nearly killed him with a rattlesnake, died Oct.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2022

He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The American Academy of Pediatrics began crusading against juice for kids.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

A serious survey of the Israel-Palestinian conflict would be highly beneficial to everyone, but it would have to examine arguments made by both sides—that’s the difference between real academic instruction and political crusading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

But the anti-drug crusading president thought that he, too, had been “treated very unfairly” and deserved a break.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

The items reportedly also include documents from the Teutonic Order -- a Catholic brotherhood of crusading knights active in the Middle Ages.

From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025

The six-fingered man was probably crusading in Asia.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman