How the IPCC’s solutions for reversing the Earth’s warming encourage business as usual.
History shows that a broad coalition of civil rights activists is how to fight back.
The housing crisis in rural America is often overlooked. At Alabama’s Auburn University, students and faculty address it head on.
Around the world, people are realizing the current path will lead only to disaster, and they’re beginning to ask the hard questions about what to do next.
Día de los Muertos is for remembering those I miss and pondering how to keep them alive in the present moment.
Some schools are looking to helping students meet much more basic needs.
A Fort Worth, Texas, program sees steady employment as an important step in helping guests rebuild their lives.
Native voters in North and South Dakota embrace the value of their vote since Standing Rock.
Educators across the country are adopting a policy to allow children in classes, and allowing more student parents to stay in school.
The documentary ‘Milwaukee 53206’ depicts the toll of the prison epidemic on families and entire communities.
Here’s what’s on the line.
The author of On the Brink of Everything finds inspiration in nature’s cycles of death and renewal.
The USMCA deal, also known as NAFTA 2.0, is a lot of things. But it is not free trade.
Hint: Putting solar panels on your house and walking to work are not on the list.
How to turn off your devices and party like it’s 1982.
Even the liberal Bay Area is not immune to a newly empowered wave of extremism. Now is the time for us to be constant gardeners of wisdom, compassion, and courage.
Research confirms that massive migration, into the millions, will be an inevitable consequence of global warming.
A growing body of evidence points to the mental health benefits of oral storytelling.
The Parkland students and others are reinventing models for people-powered activism that adapts to today’s rapid pace of change.
And several other reasons that the midterm elections are testing how far some states can go in disenfranchising certain voters.
An unsung shero of the early 20th century, Rose Schneiderman organized women to fight for laws to protect them from sexual harassment and assault in the workplace.
Pramila Jayapal writes about the Night of 1,000 Conversations, in which more than 2,500 strangers in 28 states gathered to discuss the role of immigration in the country’s past, present, and future.
Instead of complaining about younger people being politically apathetic, older generations need to show empathy and provide mentorship.
These people are fighting the good fight because LGBTQ+ Muslims shouldn’t have to sacrifice one identity at the expense of the other.
Meet the Joneses. They are your average U.S. energy consumers, and they decided to do their part. Watch how they go carbon-neutral in a decade, and then try it yourself.
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