Photos by Autumn Azure Photography.
A new bill provides two years of tuition at a community college for participating high school grads who might otherwise face a 7.5 percent unemployment rate—and other states are already following suit.
Useful as it may be as journalistic shorthand, “mansplaining” is cultural bubblegum in comparison to Solnit’s actual body of work.
Utah, Minnesota, and Washington have seen traffic fatalities decline by 40 percent. Here's how they did it.
We asked psychologists, user experience designers, and writers what web users could to do to promote more empathic interaction in online places. Here's what they said.
47 million Americans live beneath the official poverty line, under a daily judgment of failure. The question today is: Whose failure?
Seattle's path to a $15 minimum wage is a winding tale of effective organizing, smart messaging, and blind dumb luck. It is also a roadmap for bypassing partisan gridlock—one city at a time.
For low-wage workers, Seattle's minimum wage increase means a chance to go to college, pay the rent, and visit the dentist.
While making the season's tomato sauce at three in the morning, I mull over the origins of my desire to farm.
In Germany, auto workers get paid well and their companies still profit. Author Thom Hartmann on why living wages and corporate success don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Sevier County, Tenn., diverts 70 percent of waste from landfills—and it's becoming more efficient all the time.
Unless the legal foundation for local self-governance is truly built on the rights of communities, victories like the one in New York can easily be overturned.
At the local farmers market, Ferguson residents find a safe place to deal with the trauma of Michael Brown's death.
Three major international meetings about climate change are on the horizon. Is this the moment to fix the failures of Copenhagen?
Teachers and educators collect ideas and resources for how to talk about Ferguson with students of all ages.
“There’s a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
The tragedy in Ferguson helps us understand why people of color aren't as active as they could be in the climate movement—and what white allies can do to change that.
No matter what age we are, the challenge of telling others "no" never really goes away.
How four decades of lobbying and legislation gave corporations dominion over our economy—and eroded the American middle class.
Having poor people in the richest country in the world is a choice. We have the money to solve this. But do we have the will?
The goal is to raise enough money to send 500 treatments for tear gas exposure to support protesters in Ferguson, Mo.
Meanwhile, more Americans got insured, the oceans continued to become more acidic, and the world’s largest collection of rubber ducks grew at a rapid pace.
These photos document a gathering of indigenous groups from China, Bhutan, and Peru. They met in the spring to discuss climate change and plan a crop exchange program.
"There are times when I question whether I was a fool to walk away from a conventional career."
“What if we, in this neighborhood of physical and structural violence, look for the light ... and amplify it?”
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