An influential study's failure to consider factors like poverty, race, and immigration concealed the fact that scores were improving.
I've learned to embrace the dreams I most deeply desire, but also the burdens that so often work against them.
In our increasingly interdependent world, mayors may be more motivated to collaborate and possibly more capable than our national governments of effectively working across borders.
This weekend could turn out to be the largest act of civil disobedience at the White House in a generation.
When it comes to limiting digital rights, big companies are in cahoots with governments like never before. But the belief that everyone deserves safe, affordable, and private access to the Internet is taking off.
The upcoming Academy Awards will recognize some of 2013’s best social justice-themed films. Here are some of our favorite past winners.
Can you be a revolutionary and a mayor? Chokwe Lumumba—who spent eight months as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, before he died—did his best to be both.
Recent studies suggest that coal mining affects the health of everyone who lives nearby—not just those who work in the mines.
Devices we use every day are turning our personal data over to huge corporations. But can we win our privacy back?
"Having not been a judge or a witness who could've helped communicate what Michael Dunn did, my art is the only way I can give Jordan Davis justice."
There are huge profits to be made in privatization, and much of it will come from teacher pay.
For decades the myth of failing public schools justified industrial-scale testing and a privatization agenda. Now radical educators are bursting the bubble test, getting culturally relevant, and restoring justice to the classroom.
In the rush to privatize the country’s schools,
corporations and politicians have decimated school budgets, replaced teaching with standardized testing, and placed
the blame on teachers and students.
A growing number of towns and cities have found a practical solution to homelessness through the construction of tiny-house villages—and housing officials are taking notice.
Local landowners and environmentalists who have long opposed the pipeline project are celebrating the decision.
As executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, Fania Davis sees programs like hers as part of the way to end the school-to-prison pipeline.
Since I quit watching porn a year ago, I've become more present in the moment, more loving, and a better friend to the women in my life.
Residents whose tap water was polluted are finding that rainwater is an affordable alternative.
Gwendolyn Ferreti Manjarrez is an organizer with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. Here, she speaks about the role of grassroots groups in the fight to roll back HB 56.
New Mexico's traditional landrace chile varieties have adapted to hot days, cold nights, and long dry spells. But can they survive modern agribusiness?
In 2013, 46 states introduced 237 bills designed to make voting easier, while restrictive measures were introduced in only 33.
Four ways to have an equitable, earth-loving, and awesome wedding.
Lama Tsomo is a Tibetan Buddhist lama, a former homesteader, and an heiress to a family fortune who lives a quiet life in the mountains of Montana. Now she is beginning to teach the practices and insights gained through years of solitary retreats and study.
In the midst of Seeger's countless documents was one that stood out. The editor who found it reflects on coming back to that letter today.
The controversial trade deal poses serious threats to humans and the environment. We can find better tools in the fight for dolphin rights.
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