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.
How can we get the most out of our farmland without harming the planet? I traveled to rural Mexico to learn from indigenous farmers.
Every year, governments spend tens of billions of dollars on tax breaks for private companies. Now, state and city governments will have to start reporting it as lost income.
Jason Segel steers away from his usual funny guy persona in "The End of the Tour," and plays the late "Infinite Jest" author David Foster Wallace.
A new study shows that meditation can transform racial bias at any age.
Like reading the news while chomping on granola. Here’s what we've been chewing on lately.
How the Medicine Wheel can guide us to transform communities that have suffered from racial injustice
For a few hours in July, 78 percent of Germany's power was generated by renewables like solar and wind. The country is spending €200 billion to move away from fossil fuels permanently.
A New York City co-op raises $1.2 million in pledges to fight gentrification and provide affordable rent for local business owners.
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