Why are anxiety and depression on the rise? Our environments have changed. Our food. Our stress. Our relationships—our “lost connections.”
Students in these communities are disproportionately affected by trauma. When they act out, adults with training ask, “Is there anything I can do to help you?” rather than “Why are you acting this way?”
A climate scientist talks to a psychologist about coping with the crushing stress related to climate change. Here’s what he learned.
Once famous for gunslingers and cowboys, Dodge City, Kansas, relies on its Hispanic population—and not just for economic survival.
A Northern California community offers mental health first aid to survivors of devastating fires.
A Missouri town’s summer ritual brings much-needed support to small family operations.
A new generation of social justice attorneys has risen to defend against the hard-line policies of the Trump administration, from immigration and abortion access to voting and gender rights.
Native rights | Immigration | Reproductive rights | Activism | Gender justice | Democratic reforms | Local power | Citizens United
Hope plus action and investment equals revolutionary muscle. Now is the time for the progressive majority to set the terms of the conversation.
Police killings of unarmed African Americans have created a mental health crisis of enormous proportions.
What the actor wants that “White voice” to tell us and how we’ve gotten the American Dream so wrong.
A prisoner’s story of finding a third way—of finding meaning, truth, hope, and wholeness.
The key to sobriety is giving students experiences that go beyond pub-crawling or tailgating.
In the last 10 years alone, the number of people like me who owe at least $100,000 in student loans has quadrupled. But here’s how we can cope.
The novelist spent a year growing her own food, and found valuable lessons in a bumper crop of zucchini.
How winning campaigns are working to overcome the sexism and racism nonwhite candidates face.
As schools respond to the 30 percent increase in demand for counseling, artist Ella Baron gives a glimpse inside some students’ experiences.
These Native herbalists are doing more than just healing sore muscles.
Trump’s White supporters—not immigrants—are bringing lethal drugs, violence, and crime.
The Mudgirls collective redefines expectations about what a construction site is supposed to look like—child care, breastfeeding breaks, and all.
LGBTQ celebrations all over the U.S. recognize the interests of those who haven’t found a place within the mainstream community.
Rural Virginia in particular has implemented policies that try to treat people with more dignity.
New York’s Thrive provides a model to the rest of the U.S. for supporting incarcerated men and helping them find stable housing, education, and employment after they’re released.
We asked readers what they wanted to see in our affordable housing issue. More than 3,000 of you responded.
You wanted to know about community solutions — how cities are stopping gentrification, taking the greed out of development, and innovating ownership and financing models. You also told us that living in community was important — that maybe Americans had lost sight of that — and that multigenerational housing was a solution that could address the needs of an aging population along with those of a new generation of adults.
This helped us decide what stories to put in the issue. Something else did, too.
“The stories of how we’re born are so important and give so much guidance to a child’s life.”
As the federal government abandons its responsibilities, it will be up to the states, the cities, the communities, and the people to rebuild a unified state.
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