6 Ways You Just Got More Power Over Your Credit Score
A complex, for-profit system is behind these three-digit scores that affect your ability to borrow, rent, and work. Here's how regulators are putting credit score companies on notice.
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Dispatches From the Edge of Change: Why Montana’s Fossil-Fuel Resistance Gives Me Hope
Meet the ranchers, grandmothers, professors, and tribes who are bringing back grizzlies, blocking oil equipment deliveries, getting arrested—and having a great time doing it.
These Neighbors Got Together to Buy Vacant Buildings. Now They’re Renting to Bakers and Brewers
Though the model is new and small, it holds outsize potential for the many neighborhoods whose downtowns are controlled by faraway landlords or retail chains.
What’s a Death Midwife? Inside the Alternative Death Care Movement
From funeral cooperatives to green burials, there's a kinder, gentler, less expensive way to die.
Inside the Texas Megachurch Where 90 Percent of Worshipers Are LGBT
There are hundreds of LGBT-friendly churches around the country—and many are in conservative cities where you'd least expect them.
California Settlement May Release 2,000 Prisoners From Solitary Confinement
For one man, the class-action settlement means being around other people for the first time in 25 years.
Why Breast Milk Is the Ultimate Food Story (And Other News)
New Orleans sees a wave of grassroots activism after Katrina, D.C. stops a major utility merger, and a food writer lays out the superpowers of breast milk.
New Movie Finds “No Escape” From Controversy. Here’s What the Filmmakers Have to Say About It.
I interviewed the filmmakers of "No Escape" to see if they think their movie is racist. Spoiler alert: They don't.
This Trailer Changes Everything: Epic New Naomi Klein Doc Will Have You Running for Your Kayak
The film inspired by Klein's book features the stories of everyday people standing up to climate change.
Online Reporting Intern
Seeking to jump-start your career in progressive journalism with an internship heavy on research, training, writing, and fun? This may be the place for you. Application deadline is November 13 for an internship starting in early January 2016.
“You Fly to the Edge of the Tar Sands, and … No Life”: A Montana Professor on the Issue of Our Time
University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he’s standing up to tar sands extraction.
Dear Donald Trump: Pissed Off Latinos Are Powerful Latinos
History has shown that when Latinos feel threatened, they fight back—with their voices and voting power.
Drugs, Sex, and Debt: It’s Time to Revamp “The Talk”
Let’s remove the shame from the conversation and help the next generation avoid the debilitating amounts of debt that keep us from buying houses or taking vacations.
Sci-Fi Fandom Declares Victory After Reactionary Nominees Lose Big at the Hugos
Despite a deck stacked against women and people of color, the voters rewarded both.
How Craft Beer Brewers Brought Bottle Recycling to Montana
Glass is a pain in Montana’s, uh, recycling program. But the craft brew industry is on the case.
This Artist Collects Your Worst Fears and Turns Them Into Something Great
The Fear Project uses art to visually interpret the parts of life that scare us the most, normalizing fear as a part of ourselves.
The Crunch: The Hackers Behind DIY Gynecology (And Other News to Chew On)
A Mexican artist turns guns into a force for good, Banksy turns Disneyland into something dismal, and GynePunks bring open-source gynecology to the masses.
How Seattle Made Dark Alleys Safer—By Throwing Parties In Them
Since nearly a third of the city's walkable spaces are filled with cars, these residents decided to take back the alleys.
How One San Francisco Neighborhood Became “Immune” to Gentrification
With more than a quarter of the Tenderloin’s housing stock owned by nonprofits or the government, longtime residents have staying power.
At the World’s First Empathy Museum, Visitors Walk a Mile in Another Person’s Shoes—Literally
Founders of the first ever empathy museum are calling for a revolution of human relationships. Here's how you can help.
Video: 10 Years After Katrina, Has New Orleans Recovered?
This new documentary looks at gentrification in New Orleans and its effects on the city's low-income communities.
I Learned More by Leading a Student-Debt Strike Than I Did at College
After graduating from Everest College with a bad education and no job prospects in sight, I refused to pay my student loans. Now I’m helping lead the first student-debt strike in America.
On Rooftops of Paris, Expect Green Roofs and Solar Panels
The new French law, which requires renewable energy or plants on all new commercial buildings, is the first of its kind at the national level.
The Crunch: The Michigan Town That’s Sending All Its Kids to College (And Other News to Chew On)
This week we're talking about universal parental leave, how California's winning the drought, and $5,000 scholarships for every kid in Baldwin, Michigan.
Call for Submissions: Life After Oil
How do we confront the political power of the fossil fuel giants? And when we imagine a planet in recovery, what do we see? Send us your pitches by Sept. 15!
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