While it’s tempting to consider the end of this presidency, we should consider the long road ahead.
Evidence keeps mounting that, in stressful times, there is much to gain by surrounding yourself with plants and trees.
When hatred stops our ability to understand, it prevents our ability to make change.
Communities of color turned to each other to make it through the disaster. Months later, they’re doing the same to rebuild.
Addressing our systems of White supremacy cannot be dismissed as “identity politics.”
Meet the morticians offering compassionate practices for dealing with death.
A weekly newsletter created by a rookie Portland activist is moving people to action by prioritizing under-the-radar issues over big headline grabbers.
Five out of six people behind bars awaiting trial are there simply because they can’t afford bail. Community bail funds offer a solution.
Democrats cannot back down from funding children’s health and protecting Dreamers. These issues are moral priorities.
Will the farm bill and midterm elections put food back in the spotlight on Capitol Hill?
In these discouraging times, I keep a list of encouraging changes I couldn’t have predicted.
People say time heals all wounds, but new research suggests that time spent in dream sleep is what really matters.
The point isn’t to win. It’s to ignite understanding.
Smaller internet service providers offer alternatives and could disrupt the monopolies.
A way to get and give free stuff with your neighbors that is time-consuming, inconvenient—and wonderful.
The path toward Keystone XL construction is much less certain than recent news headlines might lead you to believe.
The two tax bills define what’s important to a society. Or more to the point, who’s not important.
I learned that there’s no better way to cultivate gratitude than through food.
New research shows that shuttling even 5 percent of consumer transactions to poorer neighborhoods can reduce income inequality by up to 80 percent.
In recent years, increasing the power and independence of young women has brought dramatic decreases in pregnancies and sexual abuses.
Finding connection and engaging face to face is important social change work—especially during holiday gatherings.
This rural White organization put out a call for working-class Whites to “reject the idea of whiteness.”
Because two Seattle homeowners were willing to make space, a 75-year-old man who’s been homeless for years now has a house and a community.
Americans are pushing the boundaries of how to memorialize their loved ones and dispose of their remains.
“I can lace up my sneakers, walk out my front door, and change my entire body.”
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