Marcus Harrison Green

Protesting a police killing and marching in support of a man convicted of rape can pose a real dilemma when one in five women nationwide has suffered a sexual assault.

Five reasons baby boxes are more than cutesy cardboard containers, from offering a safe place to sleep to giving an equal start in life.

Seattle University students plan to sleep outside their dean’s office for as long as it takes her to resign. Will she budge?

A one-party democracy is no democracy at all. Meet the new generation of Republicans working to bring their party back to life and into the 21st century.

From New York to California, prison gardening programs serve as cost-effective food sources and provide inmates with better nutrition.

From canine cellmates to computer training, prisons across the country are finding small ways to make life behind bars better for inmates.

Studies show kids held in solitary confinement experience long-lasting psychological damage. Activists hope a wave of local and national policy changes means widespread reform is on the way.

Irving Allen on creating an inclusive movement. “You’re not organizing unless you’re training up the next generation.”

In Chicago, low-income kids don’t usually have the opportunity to travel outside of their own neighborhoods. My Block, My Hood, My City is changing that.

As cities search for solutions to homelessness, Portland’s Dignity Village offers 60 men and women community and safety.

Economists see the Illinois Secure Choice Savings Program, designed for private-sector workers, as an innovative complement to Social Security.

In his speech delivered in Seattle, YES! reporter Marcus Harrison Green acknowledges that realizing King’s dream will require more than kind words and promises.

The Momentia movement uses strong social ties to ward off the effects of Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Cooperation Jackson heads to the Paris climate talks to show what a just transition to a green economy looks like.

“We have always said that this is a battle of imagination over incarceration.”

Early results show Seattle passing the Honest Elections ballot initiative. Voters will receive four $25 “democracy vouchers” every election year, which they can donate to the campaign of their choice.

Internalized racism prevented me from seeing how the system works.

Laurence Brahm advises the Chinese government on economic and environmental policy. Here’s what he thinks the United States can learn from China.

For their new book, H. Luke Shaefer and Kathryn J. Edin followed the lives of America’s poorest families to find out what they need to break out of poverty, and how to make it happen.

The resolution, which passed unanimously, endorses the goal of having no kids in detention in Seattle. It’s a move that chips away at the school-to-prison pipeline.

Neighbors are helping crowdfund the dreams of local entrepreneurs, giving community businesses the chance to expand with interest-free loans.

The criticism aimed at Marissa Johnson and Mara Willaford has ranged from the deeply piercing to the explicitly racist. But what they did was necessary, a welcome harbinger of more direct disruption.

New York and San Francisco both suffer from soaring rents and gentrification, despite decades of regulation. How Seattle socialist Kshama Sawant plans to do affordable housing right.