Racial Justice | Education 9 Essential Reads For Your Racial Justice Conversations These authors will help you talk about White supremacy by using reasoning and research rather than anger and frustration. Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Dec 19, 2017
How Northwest Communities Are Stopping Big Oil Projects Last week, a Washington state energy panel voted unanimously to oppose what would be the nation’s largest oil-by-rail terminal. Sarah van Gelder | Dec 7, 2017
Gender justice | Women The Problem With “Silence Breakers” as TIME’s Person of the Year I decided to search for two words on the article’s web page: “patriarchy” or “misogyny.” Zero results. Erin Sagen | Dec 6, 2017
Hear That? It’s New Impeachment Talk as Flynn Turns on Trump While it’s tempting to consider the end of this presidency, we should consider the long road ahead. Chris Winters | Dec 1, 2017
Local economies | Consumerism | Mindfulness When Buying Nothing Gives You More of Everything A way to get and give free stuff with your neighbors that is time-consuming, inconvenient—and wonderful. Erin Sagen | Nov 22, 2017
8 Tips to Get You Through Difficult Conversations This Holiday Season The point isn’t to win. It’s to ignite understanding. Sarah van Gelder | Nov 22, 2017
Americans Are Stressed About the Future. Here’s Why That’s Promising The era of empire, white supremacy, dirty energy, and global capitalism is coming to a close. Sarah van Gelder | Nov 10, 2017
How Inmates, Scientists, and Government Workers Are Teaming Up to Save This Butterfly The effort to restore prairie ecosystems in Washington state before they disappear. Sarah van Gelder | Oct 28, 2017
6 Signs Your Callout Isn’t Actually About Accountability In many ways, holding each other accountable has come to mean punishing each other. Here’s how you can refocus on the bigger picture instead. Maisha Z. Johnson | Oct 19, 2017
Racial Justice What’s Stopping Media From Calling Las Vegas Killer a “Terrorist”? His Whiteness Like other mass shooters before him, Stephen Paddock has the benefit of White privilege even in the most vicious of circumstances. Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Oct 2, 2017
“We’re Going to Keep Fighting for That Song” Royalties for “We Shall Overcome” used to go to building the power of African Americans and other marginalized people. Not anymore. Sarah van Gelder | Sep 28, 2017
I’m an 80-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor. Antifas Aren’t Scary. Neo-Nazis Are More than 70 years after hiding in a Berlin cellar, I’m faced once again with neo-Nazis spewing and spreading their hate and beliefs around white supremacy. Barbara Roose | Sep 25, 2017
My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest He wanted to know how institutional racism has made an impact on my life. I’m glad he asked, because I was ready to answer. Lori Lakin Hutcherson | Sep 8, 2017
Jobs | Consumerism | Democratic reforms | Wealth and inequality It’s Not Too Soon to Talk About the Post-Trump Era Even when sensible adults finally take back government, “back to normal” is not what we want. Chris Winters | Aug 21, 2017
Racial Justice | Criminal justice reform | Activism Confederate Statues Have Been Invisible to Most White People We’ve been living alongside the Confederacy too long, and white people are finally starting to notice. Chris Winters | Aug 16, 2017
Racial Justice | Activism Charlottesville Was Not a “Protest Turned Violent.” It Was a Planned Race Riot Isn’t it time for the media to be honest and call white supremacists the domestic terrorists that they are? Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Aug 12, 2017
Outdoors Lovers Vote With Their Wallets, Move $45 Million Trade Show Out of Utah The outdoor-recreation industry delivered a big blow to Utah’s economy because of the state’s attempts to remove protections for public lands. Stephen Miller | Aug 3, 2017
Why We Shouldn’t Think of Climate Change as Only a “Global” Issue While it is true that climate change is a global problem, we have power when we act locally. Another Test Page, Sarah van Gelder | Aug 2, 2017
Eastern Europe Makes American Democracy Look Pretty Good We have a long way to go before we lose the fight. Chris Winters | Jul 28, 2017
Democratic reforms | Clean elections | Local power Remember, Things Can Change for the Better (U.K.’s Labour Party Proves It) 8 lessons U.S. progressives can learn from Jeremy Corbyn’s remarkable campaign. Chuck Collins | Jul 25, 2017
The Progressive’s Guide to Reacting to Offensive Comedy Ten tips for when everyone says your favorite comedian has “gone too far.” Mark Rahner | Jul 20, 2017
Sustainable food and farming | Climate A Trillion-Ton Iceberg Broke Off Antarctica and All I Can Think About Is Food Climate change is getting worse, and policymakers are ignoring one of the biggest factors. Erin Sagen | Jul 14, 2017
Democratic reforms | Local power | Cooperatives | Local economies | Wealth and inequality | Consumerism How We Can Transition to a “Bottom Up” Economy Three ways to rewire the economy for equality and ecological sustainability. Chuck Collins | Jul 6, 2017
Why Climate Change Belongs in the Health Care Debate We know climate change is affecting the environment—but it’s also threatening people’s health. Stephen Miller | Jun 29, 2017
Health care Trumpcare Is Not the Health Plan We Need (but Neither Is the ACA) Under both GOP plans, we’ll have high costs, spotty coverage, and ad hoc solutions—which we have enough of already. Chris Winters | Jun 28, 2017