Let’s say goodbye to top-down revolutions and embrace grassroots action.
2012 was a year of superstorms, mass shootings, debt strikes, and the most spendy election ever. Here’s how last year’s most important stories will shape 2013.
Imagination, as Hawaiian Native rights advocate Poka Laenui describes it, is more than an antidote to hopelessness. It is a source of power.
When Republic Windows and Doors closed down without giving workers notice, the issue drew national attention. Since then, they’ve turned the factory into a worker-owned co-op—where they hold the power.
University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he’s standing up to tar sands extraction.
YES! co-founder Sarah van Gelder sets out on a road trip to find the edge of change.
Alarm over John Bolton, who has pushed for pre-emptive war in North Korea and bombing Iran, isn’t just among progressives.
We can build long-term power in our communities and help elect our favorite candidates if we work strategically, inclusively—and independently.
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.
The next women’s march is in the works. Although big mobilizations are important, they’re just one tactic.
We’ve learned a lot in 20 years of solutions journalism. We know that we can fix what’s broken in our communities, regardless of who inhabits the White House.
A four-month road trip showed me how many of us are already building a better America by working together.
Partisan gridlock keeps the focus on the fight—but we might have some radical ideas in common.
A multi-cultural coalition can lead the way to greener and more vibrant cities that work for all residents, says Carl Anthony in this interview with YES! executive editor, Sarah van Gelder.
If Democrats want to retake government, they will need to do more than be the party that isn’t as bad as Trump, starting with closing the wealth gap.
Even Trump supporters agree we can learn something from the country’s universal, low-cost health care system. It’s that good.
Involving victims in the criminal justice system can lead to healing, community empowerment, and fewer repeated offenses.
An online platform might be just the thing to spread around our grassroots genius.
A society that fails to invest in its children, to protect its land and water, or to build a future is courting collapse.
