Despite a deck stacked against women and people of color, the voters rewarded both.
Glass is a pain in Montana’s, uh, recycling program. But the craft brew industry is on the case.
The Fear Project uses art to visually interpret the parts of life that scare us the most, normalizing fear as a part of ourselves.
A Mexican artist turns guns into a force for good, Banksy turns Disneyland into something dismal, and GynePunks bring open-source gynecology to the masses.
Since nearly a third of the city's walkable spaces are filled with cars, these residents decided to take back the alleys.
Bree Newsome’s removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse reminds us that real change comes from people power.
With more than a quarter of the Tenderloin’s housing stock owned by nonprofits or the government, longtime residents have staying power.
Nearly half of Evergreen’s worker-owners have purchased homes through the program.
Good debts? We know it sounds crazy. But there’s a quiet revolution brewing in how we move money around, and we want our readers to know about it.
Founders of the first ever empathy museum are calling for a revolution of human relationships. Here's how you can help.
This new documentary looks at gentrification in New Orleans and its effects on the city's low-income communities.
After graduating from Everest College with a bad education and no job prospects in sight, I refused to pay my student loans. Now I’m helping lead the first student-debt strike in America.
With the nation’s household debt burden at $11.85 trillion, even the most modest challenges to its legitimacy have revolutionary implications.
The new French law, which requires renewable energy or plants on all new commercial buildings, is the first of its kind at the national level.
This week we're talking about universal parental leave, how California's winning the drought, and $5,000 scholarships for every kid in Baldwin, Michigan.
Total cost of Social Security in 2013: $823 billion
Total income of Social Security in 2013: $855 billion
Current accumulated surplus reserve of Social Security: $2.8 trillion (1)
How do we confront the political power of the fossil fuel giants? And when we imagine a planet in recovery, what do we see? Send us your pitches by Sept. 15!
Jerry Ashton and Craig Antico spent decades hounding debtors to pay their bills—until an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street inspired them to find a way to pay struggling people's debts.
Sad Puppies, Rabid Chauvinists: Will Raging White Guys Succeed in Hijacking Sci-Fi’s Biggest Awards?
More and more women have been nominated for Hugo Awards in recent years—until this year. Here’s what’s at stake.
The criticism aimed at Marissa Johnson and Mara Willaford has ranged from the deeply piercing to the explicitly racist. But what they did was necessary, a welcome harbinger of more direct disruption.
YES! co-founder Sarah van Gelder sets out on a road trip to find the edge of change.
Graduates of an “Inside-Out” program in Oregon say that the experience transformed the way they see the prison system—and themselves.
$11.85 trillion in household debt has more to do with stagnant wages (and predatory banks) than shopping sprees.
This week we’re talking about the future of work, a "masculine studies" program... and goats.
A new feminist children's book honors 26 awesome women who changed the world.
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