If you lack words for a phenomenon, an emotion, a situation, you can’t talk about it—which means that you can’t come together to change it.
Activists built support for the ordinance by demonstrating that it would reduce poverty in the city.
Coal-fired power plants are responsible for about 40 percent of United States' carbon emissions. That pollution would be regulated for the first time under the new proposed rules.
A program called the Walking School Bus provides kids an easy way to get regular exercise while getting to know their neighborhood.
While manufacturing circuit boards for Samsung, Hye-kyeong Han was diagnosed with a brain tumor, leading her to undergo a number of surgeries and radiation treatments. She was just 26 years old.
Clive Porabou was born on the Pacific island of Bougainville. Transnational mining company Rio Tinto was beginning to dig the world’s largest open-pit copper mine, displacing native residents. Armed conflict started even before excavation began.
After dozens of interviews, the guiding question of this oral history project shifted from, “Who are the people in the factories?” to, “How are workers and communities putting their futures at risk when they demand something better?”
In North Carolina, when school gets out each summer, a stream of young people—nearly all Latino—head into the fields to help bring in the state’s most profitable crop: tobacco. Neftali Cuello was twelve years old when she first accompanied her family into the fields.
First the anger, then the love—overcoming generational anger to find the courage required for the difficult work ahead.
Filters that contain fungi with powerful antibiotic properties can help remove harmful bacteria from water.
The teachers found their careers at risk when an erratic statistical tool became a key measure of their success.
Farah Tanis learned that, of the women in poverty she worked with, 9 out of 10 had experienced violence—so she started a bartering network to help them survive.
In Angelou’s poem “A Brave and Startling Truth,” we can sense the poet’s yearning for a more peaceful and loving future.
The PBS classic, which taught a love of books to generations of kids, will be coming back in an online version.
A midnight run-in with a spiny interloper forced me to re-evaluate my priorities.
Bullying, police brutality, and everyday insensitivities are regularly lampooned with Australians Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain's weapon of choice: comedy.
In some parts of the park, the average height of the trees quintupled over six years.
Today's storytellers show that each of us can be part of something more powerful, diverse, and creative than we might have imagined.
Signs of change are appearing in the United States military as well.
Today, six corporations own most of our media—but we could be poised to take it back.
This issue of YES! looks at the ways new voices are being heard, and at how their stories are transforming our culture.
Current trends suggest one in three kids will develop Type 2 diabetes as adults. These moms told McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson what they think about the fast food industry targeting their kids.
The popularity of a new book by French economist Thomas Piketty should be a wake-up call for politicians. If inequality sells in the stores, it will sell at the polls as well.
We pored through a debt-resistance manual created by former Occupiers to bring you these practical tips.
And 25 other facts you should probably know.
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