When we call ourselves protectors, we cast our role as fulfilling our responsibility to the community that sustains us—not for our personal benefit, but for the benefit of all.
The drama and injustice on display at Standing Rock have taught a new generation of observers what Native Americans already know: Even today, theirs is a brutal fight to survive.
People from more than 300 tribes traveled to the North Dakota plains to pray and march in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux. Back home, each tribe faces its own version of the “black snake” and a centuries-old struggle to survive.
America's national parks are overcrowded and underfunded. Would banning cars improve everyone’s experience?
Worker-ownership economics catch on in Ohio, Nevada, and North Carolina.
Author George Lakey explains why Scandinavia tops world lists for equality, health, and happiness.
The Women’s March on Washington illustrated what a wide variety of issues women will have in the years ahead with Donald Trump.
Intrepid journalist and artist Sarah Lazarovic traveled to the Women's March on Washington to march and meet the inspiring people gathered there. And while she was marching, she was drawing.
The large refugee community in Minnesota is a big target for bigotry, and tensions are expected to get worse. But they’ve got a plan.
Opportunities for bridging partisan divides will be rare. Success for Democrats should be defined by laws and appointments denied or delayed.
Inspired by a president they propelled to office, college students have led a successful effort to pressure institutions to divest from fossil fuels.
Issues that impact the womanhood of any one of us—directly or indirectly—impact all of us.
After the inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington, what comes next? To make real change, we’ll need to build power where we live.
If the Trump administration is serious about bringing jobs and pride back to rural America, they should take a lesson from cooperatives of the 1930s.
Almost all of the nitrogen and phosphorous we ingest comes out of our bodies — what if we could return it to the soil?
Trump articulates ideas that are closer to what is considered “normal” in the United States than many of us are willing to acknowledge.
From conversations that heal to land trusts that fight gentrification.
Organizers hope to connect today’s civil rights movements to those of the past with a week of demonstrations across the country leading up to Inauguration Day.
Have your passports ready, watch your language, and other advice from a Yale history professor.
Author and activist Ralph Nader wants to create a new 1 percent—one that will expose “conditions of deprivation and abuse” and champion “basic fair play.”
The rate of women in U.S. prisons is growing faster than men. But in New Orleans, one group is successfully tackling sentencing for drug use and sex work.
First, understand the environment is not only about climate change—it’s about livelihood for miners, drillers, loggers, and farmers like me.
A world free of extremes of wealth and poverty in which no one needs to stand in line for a chance at a secure and fulfilling life.
Many of us have never had our courage or convictions challenged in frightening ways. That may change.
In the weeks leading up to Inauguration Day and the Women’s March on Washington, a furious knitting revolution is sweeping craft baskets across the country.
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