Native rights | Indigenous lands A Land Back Victory on Haida Gwaii British Columbia affirms Indigenous ownership of the 200 islands the Haida have stewarded for millennia, marking a new path toward reconciliation. Serena Renner | Apr 25, 2024
Books | Women Who Gets to Be a Mother? Making motherhood accessible for all requires moving away from punitive models—including foster care—that criminalize poverty. Andrea Ruggirello | Apr 23, 2024
Indigenous lands | Pollution | Water | Native rights | Activism | Pipeline resistance Photo Essay: The Healing Power of Matriarchs A photographer’s connections with eight Indigenous women have helped her come to terms with her own Native ancestry and colonial trauma. Roxann Murray | Apr 22, 2024
Mental health Why Hope Is Different Than Optimism Hope is not a positive expectation but a moral commitment. Kendra Thomas | Apr 19, 2024
Racial Justice Rethinking Arab American Heritage Month Cultural heritage months are most useful when they’re leveraged as an opportunity to demand justice. Stephanie Abraham | Apr 16, 2024
LGBTQ+ | Gender justice | Health care Serious About Gender Exploration? There’s a Doula for That. Just like birth doulas, gender doulas support people at all stages of their gender journey. Celeste Hamilton Dennis | Apr 15, 2024
Water | Climate How Folklore Can Shape Our Climate Futures It’s not just our homes that are at risk from climate change; it’s our customs, songs, and stories. Katie Myers | Apr 12, 2024
Music | Racial Justice Beyoncé’s Requiem for Black Country Dreams With “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé is not only topping the country charts, but also challenging old narratives about genre. Francesca T. Royster | Apr 11, 2024
Climate The Climate Lessons a Typhoon Taught Us A decade after Typhoon Haiyan decimated the Philippines, the city of Tacloban is setting a new standard for surviving global catastrophes. Gabes Torres | Apr 9, 2024
Education Chess Captures Life Lessons for Argentinian Youth Bottle caps transform into queens, knights, and pawns that help kids learn how to regulate emotions, socialize, and resolve conflicts. Eva Marabotto | Apr 8, 2024
Water Ending Water Apartheid in Palestine Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank fighting for the right to a homeland, and for their basic right to water—which Israel continues to deny. Marianne Dhenin | Apr 8, 2024
Climate For the Good of the Hive A bee caretaker learns just how much humans can gain from tuning in to nature’s cues. Jamie Liu | Apr 5, 2024
Climate The Water Came Early Grappling with the fantasy and memory of flooding on California’s last remaining almond farm. Zoe Young | Apr 4, 2024
Climate Rooted in the Diaspora Evolving technology and place-based knowledge help a family connect with joy while far from home and one another. Sanjana Sekhar | Apr 3, 2024
Climate Rewilding a Grieving Heart A father copes with the loss of his daughter by giving back to nature, as she had wanted. Andrew Kenneson | Apr 2, 2024
Climate Radically Reimagining Our Future Through Climate Fiction When it comes to telling the story of climate change, we need both journalism and fiction to imagine a better world. Breanna Draxler | Apr 1, 2024
Climate More Than a Marble Propelled by a discerning non-verbal child, a craft gets elevated to an act of devotion. Rae Mariz | Apr 1, 2024
Education Education for Nomadic Families in Nigeria Displaced by climate change, Fulani children are getting access to education no one in their communities has had before. Abubakar Muktar Abba | Mar 29, 2024
Murmurations Murmurations: Wisdom From Women Changemakers It’s more important than ever to commit to collective practices that generate hope, love, care, and community. Kristen Zimmerman, Rufaro Gwarada, Shawna Wakefield | Mar 26, 2024
Criminal justice reform | Wealth and inequality | Jobs The Coffee Shops Countering Recidivism A criminal record keeps many qualified candidates out of work; these coffee companies are helping clear the first hurdle. Andy Hirschfeld | Mar 25, 2024
Body Politics | LGBTQ+ We Are All Responsible for Making Bathrooms Safer Transgender and nonbinary people need more than policies to protect their safe access to bathrooms. They need allies. Kate Sosin | Mar 22, 2024
Women YES! Must-Reads: Resist Like a Woman For Women’s History Month, YES! is highlighting stories of women change-makers, freedom fighters, and innovators. Julia Luz Betancourt | Mar 20, 2024
Murmurations Murmurations: Flying Into the Spring Equinox Like moths emerging from a cocoon, the spring equinox beckons us to embrace our re-imagined selves. Sham-e-Ali Nayeem | Mar 19, 2024
Education | LGBTQ+ Who Is Beating Back Book Bans? Amidst a rising tide of anti-LGBTQ book bans, activists, authors, and librarians are organizing to make sure LGBTQ stories are still heard. Sara Youngblood Gregory | Mar 18, 2024
Health care 6 Ways California Can Help Kids With Disabilities Get Care Experts and disability justice advocates say these changes could help more California families with children who have complex medical needs access the care they‘re entitled to. Claudia Boyd-Barrett | Mar 15, 2024