Embracing What’s Next
Dear Reader, I’m writing to you with a full heart. I’ve noticed my heart often feels this way during a transition from what is now to what is next. Like
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Embracing the Inevitable End
The goal of this issue isn’t to send our dear readers into a tailspin. Instead, we’re taking a hopeful approach to our “Endings” issue.
Could We End Wealth?
Billionaires are just one symptom of our upside-down economic system.
New State of the Game
When it comes to sports, going for gold should be genderless.
What Monogamy Misses
Expanding our kinship networks can enrich our lives.
Ending National Parks
Returning national parks to tribal sovereignty could help remedy what is often called America’s “best idea.”
Fruits of Decay
There is a whole world of gorgeous foraged fungi varieties beyond what’s common in U.S. grocery stores.
The Care(ful) Work of Abolishing Prisons
How to kick our national addiction to prisons.
Where’s the Humanity in Intercountry Adoption?
An adult adoptee shines a light on the system of international adoption.
Black History, Unearthed
”A Darker Wilderness“ explores the relationship of Black folks to nature and to the state.
Inspiration: Haruki Murakami
“What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn’t.”
YES! Issue Contributors
Jonita Davis is the film critic, writer, and pop culture junkie behind the online publication The Black C.A.P.E. magazine. She is also a published author, English professor, and podcaster. Her
Reckoning With Tradition
Can we create new traditions that honor where we've been and help guide us where we need to go?
Why I Give
Leslie Lewis is a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego. She has been reading YES! since 2014. What kind of work and/or volunteering do you do? I
The Work Issue
I am privileged to be able to say that I love the work I do. I find meaning, purpose, and even a sense of identity in my work here at YES! Media. But I also know that, compared to many people in this country, I am in the minority.
The Past, Present, and Future of Work
Our work environment is deeply dysfunctional. But making systemic change requires understanding how we got here.
Undergrads Fight for Their Right to Organize
Long-underpaid undergrad students who work on campus are increasingly seeing the value of their labor and organizing unions.
Can Unions Still Transform the Workplace?
Young workers, women, and people of color are combining digital innovation with old-school face-to-face organizing to build a new labor movement.
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