In 2000, the decapitation of the crusading journalist Georgiy Gongadze horrified the nation.

Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/03/07/commentary-ukraine-needs-continued-western-support-and-tough-love/

In this decade a crusading pharmacist, Dora Akunyili, became the head of Nigeria’s food and drug regulator, NAFDAC, as well as a figurehead of the fight against bad medicines in Nigeria.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinero/2023/05/12/nigeria-races-to-scale-up-its-production-of-medicines/

It was noteworthy, first, because Mr. Finucane was a lawyer — charismatic, crusading, a self-made Catholic — and even amid the worst violence, defense lawyers were not generally considered fair game.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/opinion/finucane-assassination-northern-ireland.html

Warren’s “made a career of crusading against such ‘monopolies,’” but this latest “scores new points for pettiness” and “shows just how broad (and therefore meaningless) the word ‘monopoly’ has become in modern political discourse.”

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/11/27/opinion/fact-checkers-ignore-tlaib-the-west-needs-us-leadership-and-other-commentary/