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Can We Game Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?
People want to engage with climate change in a tangible way—and games can provide students and the general public space to explore challenging questions.
June Jordan’s Legacy of Solidarity and Love Remains Relevant
The late poet and activist’s legacy lives on decades after her untimely death—in the purposeful lives of her former students.
Can Tearing Down Freeways Bring New Life to Cities?
Before the freeways came in, Bronzeville, on Milwaukee’s North Side, was a vibrant neighborhood known for its restaurants, bars, and jazz scene. The area had been home to successive waves
Battle-Ready Biden Is Playing the Long Game
The president’s address showcased two years of policy wins, an ambitious wishlist, and that Biden is in a fighting mood.
The Indigenous Winter Pantry: Recipes for Today’s Kitchen
After the disruption of colonization, numerous tribal efforts aim to reinvigorate traditional foods and the health benefits they provide.
Envisioning a New World Through Abolition Geography
“Imagining the impossible is what people have been doing in the struggle for liberation,” says academic and activist Ruthie Wilson Gilmore in a conversation about her latest book.
Why Farmers in Zimbabwe Are Shifting to Bees
Without the need for dedicated land or water, honeybees offer a more stable climate future.
Time Is Money: The True Cost of Commuting
Commuting time continues to grow, in effect reducing wages by more than 10%.
A Young Person’s Guide to Spotting Fake News
Whatever your age, you can be a critically news-literate person.
How Black History Paves the Way for a Just Black Future
Alicia Garza is searching for Black-led solutions to some of the biggest problems of our democracy—solutions that go far beyond a hashtag.
The Anti-Blackness at the Root of Police Violence
Scholar Rashad Shabazz explains how anti-Black bias is so central to American policing that even Black officers are influenced by it.
Social Movements and NGOs: Can They Get Along?
NGOs seeking to support frontline movements often stumble. The activist network Beautiful Trouble conducted a detailed study and offer a path forward.
Stronger Labor Laws Could Combat Human Trafficking
Author Melissa Hope Ditmore suggests that current political attention on human trafficking is performative rather than practical. In her new book, she makes the case for enforcing and expanding labor laws.
Embracing Financial Protections for Abuse Survivors
Even after leaving a domestic violence situation, survivors are often saddled with mountains of debt incurred by their abusers. Can a new California law offer protections?
Why We Need Pirates
Exploited sailors escaped to form egalitarian outlaw societies under the Jolly Roger.
Food as Embodiment and Connection
Colonization and capitalism have distorted our relationships with food. How do we return to its physical and social sacredness?
How Corporations Attempt to Co-opt Buddhism
Companies like Amazon and Google present mindfulness as a secular technology for stress relief. But authentic Buddhism cannot be harmed.
Florida’s Anti-Woke Laws Deny Existence of Systemic Racism
Past generations harnessed state power to penalize educators who dared to teach about injustice. Many of today’s anti-anti-racists rehearse the same old rhetoric for similar ends.
How Republicans Whitewash MLK
The GOP has a history of taking Martin Luther King Jr.’s words out of context to justify their own racist policies.
Our Right to Heal: Liberatory Harm Reduction
Harm reduction was adopted by public institutions to help stem the spread of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. But it originated in self-advocacy by drug users, sex workers, and trans activists.
A Coup for All Seasons
The next two years will mark a return to chaos in government, as an empowered right wing takes over the House.
Runaway SCOTUS
The radical right-wing-majority Supreme Court needs to be rebalanced. Here’s how to do it.
How Parents Can Support Teen Mental Heath
Parents and caregivers are a critical link in addressing the urgent mental health crisis among teens.
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