An increasing amount of research shows that good health practices and outcomes can spread throughout a community, even outweighing the influence of immediate family members.
And what kind of changes would need to be implemented to support that balance?
Outsider parties can have an effect on electoral outcomes aside from being labeled spoilers. But they almost never change the two-party dynamic.
Military recruiters count on economic hardship to lure young people of color to sign up. Counter-recruiters are working hard to thwart their efforts.
Guatemalan and Salvadoran immigrants helped organize far-reaching workers’ rights campaigns in industries that mainstream unions had thought to be untouchable.
The Supreme Court curbed the EPA’s ability to restrict emissions, so states are looking to enshrine rights to “healthful environments” in their constitutions.
Celebrated physician Gabor Maté on how our toxic culture is making us ill.
Climate-resilient public transportation is crucial to meeting our climate goals and ensuring mobility for vulnerable communities.
The endorsement and buy-in of critical stakeholders, like fishers, can make or break a conservation project. So fishers were invited to the table as the project took shape.
Storytelling—in all its images, metaphor, movement, and sounds—can be reflectors for self-understanding and containers for easing pain from times of crisis.
Black and other farmers of color are seeing a restoration of land that was stolen or cheated from them as a key step to strengthening their economic power.
Experts on banking, public spending, and education policy look at the impact of Biden’s plan.
Have you ever seen a solar eclipse? A new book for readers of all ages explains the science behind the rare and wonderful event.
New York City’s Liberty Cleaners co-created an innovative training program that’s providing the skills to bring about their vision of the gig economy.
Talking about endings can be scary, but they are necessary if we are to create something better together, writes adrienne maree brown.
The UN declaration is more than moral posturing. Resolutions like this one have led to effective treaties and national laws.
Repurposing water (with treatment, of course) is a safe way to help communities build water resilience in the face of growth and climate change.
For the author of a new memoir, North Dakota was a place of beauty and danger.
Comedian W. Kamau Bell together with his co-author Kate Schatz have written a new activity book, chock full of coloring pages, crosswords, thought experiments and exercises.
“When I think of the many ways we—laborers, neighbors, people in community with one another—are failing each other, I think first and foremost of the institution of work as we know it.”
The Dutch art of niksen—intentionally doing nothing, letting the mind wander—is much needed in our over-scheduled lives.
I am privileged to be able to say that I love the work I do. I find meaning, purpose, and even a sense of identity in my work here at YES! Media. But I also know that, compared to many people in this country, I am in the minority.
Our work environment is deeply dysfunctional. But making systemic change requires understanding how we got here.
Long-underpaid undergrad students who work on campus are increasingly seeing the value of their labor and organizing unions.
Young workers, women, and people of color are combining digital innovation with old-school face-to-face organizing to build a new labor movement.
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