Bad managers, burnout, and health fears are causing record numbers of workers to quit the industry for good.
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, how to be a climate ally where you are.
Christena Cleveland on her pilgrimage to find the sacred Black feminine.
Understanding why many Asian Americans don’t seek mental health care—like stigma and lack of culturally appropriate resources—is essential to providing effective support.
Most community gardens don’t last more than 10 years. But the Harambee Garden—at 12 years and running—has lessons to share.
The fossil fuel industry uses greenwashing and woke-washing to shirk their own responsibility.
The city’s activists have seen varying levels of success in housing and food justice. But justice for police abuse remains elusive. Here’s why.
From breath work to joyful movement, 9 suggestions on how to compassionately soothe the body amidst pandemic anxiety.
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we get ready for a climate marathon.
Voting rights reform has died an ignoble death in Congress. The way forward isn’t clear or inspiring, but at least we still have one.
Thich Nhat Hanh, who taught mindfulness for decades, approached death in that same spirit.
“We can’t afford to let our education systems get in sustainability’s way.”
The redistricting cycle of 2022 has been marked by numerous voter suppression laws, lawsuits against them, and citizen involvement in drawing new maps.
adrienne maree brown invites YES! readers to join her in writing “fan fiction and fan poetics for the future.”
A Trump-era rule requiring immigrants to remain in Mexico while awaiting their cases has caused suffering and human rights violations. The U.S. Supreme Court is now thwarting President Biden’s attempt to end the rule.
In a new book, Gus Speth charts 50 years of the U.S. government’s role in causing global warming.
Across the state, midwives and doulas are working to increase education and access to their services to more Black and Brown women.
Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers spent a year relentlessly protesting the Modi government’s push to corporatize Indian agriculture. Their fight offers a model for social movements worldwide.
Leaving behind a prolific body of work and a powerful legacy, Black feminist writer and thinker bell hooks taught us about radical intersectional politics—and love.
Building an ecological civilization is the only way forward to saving both the planet and humanity. And time is running out.
One often-overlooked aspect of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and career was his strong support of labor unions, calling them America’s first anti-poverty program.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence went beyond street protest to include abolishing what he called the triple evils: racism, poverty, and militarism.
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From anti-communist witch-hunts to independence movements to wages for housework and rights for sex workers, 91-year-old Selma James has been in the struggle for a lifetime.
“The ultimate cause of homelessness is our spiritual break with the land.”
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