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Connections

The "Connections" Issue
A cover of the YES! magazine - Winter 2024 edition

Elders

The “Elders” Issue
A cover of the YES! magazine - FALL 2023 edition

Growth

The “Growth” Issue
A cover of the YES! magazine - SUMMER 2023 edition

Thirst

The “Thirst” Issue
The cover of YES! Magazine's "Endings" issue for Spring 2023. Against a black background, a blindfolded, bald head is shown with the face resting on a pile of dirt. From the dirt emerge yellow, red, white, and orange flowers. The conceptual cover was photographed by Arjuna Asa, an artist from Jakarta, Indonesia.

Endings

The “Endings” Issue

Bodies

The “Bodies” Issue

Work

The “Work” Issue

Pleasure

The “Pleasure” Issue

The Black Lives Issue

Black writers, artists, and activists imagine what's possible now.

The Death Issue

Death is a universal certainty, yet most Americans’ interactions with it are limited to times of crisis. The Death Issue invites us to explore “a good death”—how to prepare ourselves

The Travel Issue

This issue asks us to move through the world differently as we travel, to more deeply consider the places we visit and the people who live there. You’ll get ideas for how to radicalize the trips you take so they do more to create a fairer exchange: by supporting local economies, building real relationships, protecting natural resources, and taking the time to learn the political and historical truth about these places.

The Dirt Issue

Somewhere in time, humans’ natural relationship to soil became broken. This issue explores how communities are reconnecting to the earth and fixing the damage, turning lifeless dirt into fertile soil. By returning to a culture that loves its soil, we can grow healthy food and make it available to everyone. In turn, healthy soils will heal our bodies and the planet. It’s time to get dirty.

The Good Money Issue

To fix this country’s rising inequality, we need to use the vast amount of wealth we have already—capital—in better ways than gambling on Wall Street and propping up capitalism’s favorite destructive industries. In this issue, we look at opportunities to invest in communities and improve people’s lives with our biggest pots of money—tax dollars, philanthropy endowments, and fossil fuel divestments.

The Mental Health Issue

Nearly 50 percent of Americans will experience a mental health disorder at some point in their lifetime. Anxiety, depression, and addiction are on the rise. Why? And what can we do about it? In this issue, we look at the culture, economics, and politics that play a significant role in everyone’s mental health, and the many community responses that are helping to heal us.

The Affordable Housing Issue

A decade after the housing market crash, too few homes are available where they’re needed. In places where there are enough homes, for sale or for rent, prices are increasingly out of reach for people who aren’t wealthy. The affordability challenge is different for each city, so communities are borrowing ideas from each other, then innovating. People, too, are shifting expectations to create affordable homes.

The Decolonize Issue

American white supremacy can be traced back colonialism. In this issue we explore the extent to which ending economic, cultural, and racial oppression is possible. What movements are countering the colonialist power structures? What’s working to support self-determination? We turned to Indigenous writers and photographers to tell those stories.
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