Home. The thought of it conjures up a tangle of images, of safeness and permanence and comfortable refuge. Home is also tenuous shelter under a busy overpass, in a neighborhood
Resmaa Menakem intersperses political commentary and predictions about American democracy with explanations of how racialized trauma presents in our bodies, and offers body-focused exercises to deal with it.
Degrowth invites us to envision a much deeper societal transition than simply swapping energy sources to maintain the status quo.
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Sarah Gilman is an independent writer, illustrator, and editor who covers the environment, natural history, science, and place. She spent 11 years as a staff and contributing editor at High
We hope that our Summer 2022 issue was, well, a pleasure to read. The “Pleasure” issue explored what it truly means to center pleasure in our lives—how does it transform
Dear Reader, I’m writing to you the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. I am gutted and grieving for this country. I wander my house, distracted and short
Louise is principal/superintendent of Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy, a free, public, K-8 charter school in Yuba County, California. What are your passions? My passion is the natural world. I
The GOP has steadily conditioned its base to accept threats and violence as political discourse. That was on full display after the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago.
Frugality isn’t just a virtue practiced by bygone generations. It can also be a break with an all-consuming capitalist system.
Centering schools around the well-being of our students (and their teachers) is the most straightforward path to positive change in the workplace.
People of color are pigeonholed almost exclusively into constrained narratives of trauma and rejection, our anguish commodified for consumption. It’s time to change this.
Climate action, racial justice, and economic reform ultimately all have the same end goal. Our movements should unite behind it.
Indigenous values helped shape American democracy, and now they’re helping increase Native representation.
Near San Francisco, an ambitious wetlands restoration project is attempting to balance a return to the ecological past with the realities of a changing future.
Solving the Mountain State’s endemic issues means a return to old-fashioned virtues of neighborliness and diligence.
Listening to survivors share their stories of horror does not absolve the Catholic Church of wrongdoings or release it from further accountability.
It is high time for the U.S. to do some serious soul-searching. Communion and fellowship are what will get us through.
Wildfires and the destruction they cause have become a societal problem. Addressing this issue comprehensively should include both short-term and long-term solutions.
Nichols’ career arc shows how diverse casting on the screen can have a profound impact in the real world, too.
A Black queer lawmaker posted a video on social media of herself twerking in a bikini. In response to the maelstrom of criticism, she’s reclaiming her bodily autonomy and pushing back with a new campaign.
In addition to casting critical votes, Natives are winning local, state, and national offices.
The Supreme Court’s decision validates a half-century-old strategy by Christian nationalists to remake the very fabric of this nation.
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