Sonora Jha was new to America and on her own with a 6-year-old when she was injured in a car accident. But she found a new community willing to help out—with songs, play dates, and kimbap.
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The only way to beat a rigged system of body shame is to give ourselves what the system never will: compassion and radical love.
Raising resilient, anti-racist children means having conversations about racial injustice.
Studying history is like detective work—especially when the rebellion of Black women has been left out of the story.
An Indigenous writer describes how ritual is the entryway to connection and wholeness.
A new comic depicts the life of the legendary Black singer, star, and activist.
The youngest inaugural poet encouraged us to own our history and repair our nation.
Fifty years after the civil rights movement, our country remains overwhelmingly segregated and overwhelmingly unjust.
The human “fight or flight” response gives demagogues like Trump a tool for political manipulation. But we could replace oppression with a system of care.
A veteran activist describes the international movement to abolish capital punishment.
A new children’s book centers Native culture and our relationship with Earth.
Instead of conspicuous consumption, try the conspicuous sharing of “Buy Nothing.”
An open-air cafe closes for winter with one last comfort meal outdoors, even in the rain.
A Native poet takes us back to a moment of liberal outrage after the last election.
Witchcraft is having a moment. But look past pop culture's teenaged spellbinders and consider the encouraging example of the unconventional crone.
How Nick and Jenny summoned the Devil and ushered in the apocalypse before they graduated from high school. (Also, they’re sorry about that.)
When Trump signed the “Muslim ban,” lawyer Tahmina Watson recruited a small army to provide free legal aid to immigrants. Then came the family separation policy.
For fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz, making sourdough, kimchi, and kombucha is about more than eating well at home. It’s a metaphor for creative systemic change, bubbling away from the ground up.
A former economic hit man describes his part in setting up what he calls a “Death Economy.”
Traditional reindeer herding is a cornerstone of Sámi culture in the European Arctic highlands. It’s also part of a finely balanced ecology that can help cool the planet. But Norway’s government wants mineral mines instead of roaming reindeer.
The example of gender equality in Haudenosaunee society gave 19th-century White women some big ideas.
An appeals court overruled the shutdown of DAPL, pending a full environmental review. The fight against a pipeline that provoked unprecedented resistance continues.
There’s the octopus in the parking garage, and 26,500 other signs that climate change is here.
We can find hope in a perspective that does not mask the worst that can happen to us.
Dramatic climate action is critical because we’re about to cross tipping points that are not reversible.
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