Are you going to eat that? Because the food industrial complex is the stuff of nightmares.
The effort to restore prairie ecosystems in Washington state before they disappear.
Communities are scrambling to save lives and get people into rehabilitation, but it wasn’t always that way.
In some places in this country, it’s easier to talk about climate change if you avoid the words “climate change.” Melting ice caps and mass migrations are distant and abstract.
And she has a plan to do it.
The ongoing discourse over racial injustice in my adopted country has had me thinking of my own upbringing in India.
What it looks like to pay for the unearned advantages my whiteness has afforded me.
Urban planning has historically perpetuated inequality and injustice. But this city may have found a solution.
Activists who come to command without listening to those they’re ostensibly helping produce a devastation that makes the project of systemic oppression that much easier.
Texas. Florida. Puerto Rico. California. The growing climate disaster toll ought to raise questions about where humans can and should live.
“The Standing Rock I knew was not a mystical place with a uniform perspective. It was a complex place—an experiment in love, hope, courage, and solidarity.”
Understanding the history of the world and our centuries-long drive toward cheapness.
“Indigenous women ... often are the ones to call out injustice when they see it immediately. We saw that at Standing Rock.”
College administrators worry a more rigorous process for proving sexual assault could send the wrong message to students.
We need more than good-heartedness to save our democracy. We need the courage to act on it.
We are limiting the potential of this campaign if we insist that everyone get in a box and become one of three things: perpetrators, victims, or allies.
In many ways, holding each other accountable has come to mean punishing each other. Here’s how you can refocus on the bigger picture instead.
Washington, D.C., has the highest incarceration rate in the country. That’s why Juan Reid launched this cooperative owned and operated by ex-inmates.
Public universities must walk a delicate line when it comes to upholding free speech in this charged political environment.
The campaign is working to end the criminalization of people who can’t afford subway fares—because no one should go to jail for $2.75.
And 24 other facts you should probably know.
A Boston radio station trains teens, helps them find their voice, and gives them a chance to be heard.
There are better ways to spend economic development dollars. Cities that bend over backward to lure the tech giant may end up on the losing end.
Liberals and conservatives have too much in common—and too much at stake—to keep hiding behind differences.
We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness. Here’s how that can stop.
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