Environmental and labor activists have found success collaborating at the local and state levels. Now they have their eyes on federal policy.
Issues
Direct payments to home-based child care providers can sustain them and the essential work they do to care for the children of working Americans.
Our profit-driven health care system pushes workers to the breaking point. What would it look like to take back our power?
Rest is not antithetical to work. We cannot imagine work without it.
Activists have long suggested that oppressive institutions should be abolished rather than reformed. The same could be said about labor.
Late summer and fall offer a bounty of berries bursting with flavor—and healing potential.
Landscape endures even when the infrastructure of hubris cannot.
These activists are working to ensure Indigenous perspectives are included in fields as diverse as education, health care, and scientific research.
Years from 1972 to 2022 that Republicans have controlled the presidency: 29 Years from 1972 to 2022 that Democrats have controlled the presidency: 22 Number of Supreme Court justices appointed
Home. The thought of it conjures up a tangle of images, of safeness and permanence and comfortable refuge. Home is also tenuous shelter under a busy overpass, in a neighborhood
Resmaa Menakem intersperses political commentary and predictions about American democracy with explanations of how racialized trauma presents in our bodies, and offers body-focused exercises to deal with it.
Degrowth invites us to envision a much deeper societal transition than simply swapping energy sources to maintain the status quo.
Play the puzzle from our “Work” issue.
Sarah Gilman is an independent writer, illustrator, and editor who covers the environment, natural history, science, and place. She spent 11 years as a staff and contributing editor at High
We hope that our Summer 2022 issue was, well, a pleasure to read. The “Pleasure” issue explored what it truly means to center pleasure in our lives—how does it transform
Dear Reader, I’m writing to you the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. I am gutted and grieving for this country. I wander my house, distracted and short
Louise is principal/superintendent of Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy, a free, public, K-8 charter school in Yuba County, California. What are your passions? My passion is the natural world. I
Despite what capitalism has taught us, pleasure is neither a commodity nor a reward. It’s a foundational human need.
This issue is dedicated to exploring pleasure as it connects to our efforts to change the world, and, hopefully, get free in the process.
Everyone has the right to pleasure. But without disability justice, pleasure is a privilege.
What does it mean to give ourselves permission to experience joy even when grief and rage are present?
The pursuit of pleasure in our modern capitalist society is inextricably linked to money.
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