Many essential workers are parents, too. So as the child care crisis continues, community activists are finding creative ways to support them.
The electoral college has affirmed Biden’s election. But he’s inheriting a country in crisis that will test his administration in a way we haven’t seen since the Civil War.
On the importance of teaching critical media literacy.
Native communities share heritage ways to live and care for each other during this latest pandemic.
With Deb Haaland at the helm, the department may finally start keeping its promises to Native Americans.
We all deserve to be celebrated for making it through today.
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
How would you describe 2020? Alarming, chaotic, enraging, or all of the above? Here are some brilliant books to help you make sense of it all and get ready for a new year.
With tourism all but gone, the pandemic could provide the momentum necessary to activate much-needed changes in how we approach conservation.
In most cases, calling the police on abusers is unhelpful at best, and at worst makes survivors feel less safe: “It’s really time that we recenter on what the survivors are telling us.”
Businesses owned by people of color are particularly vulnerable to the economic impacts of COVID-19. So this year, consider ditching the big corporations and opt for patronizing these small businesses instead.
Instead of conspicuous consumption, try the conspicuous sharing of “Buy Nothing.”
Their response shows that Indigenous nations and communities know what they need, and that they are the directors of their own protective measures.
A three-part reported series identifying the infrastructure, challenges, and successes of Portland's sustained protests in defense of Black lives.
After more than 100 days of continual demonstrations, protesters in Portland are looking to the future—and each other—for ways to sustain their movement for Black lives.
“Protesting ultimately isn’t safe and we’re not trying to say that it is,” says one Portland street medic. “But that doesn’t mean we can’t take care of each other.”
Portland, Oregon’s five months of ongoing protests in support of Black lives are sustained by a vast, multifaceted, and ever-evolving network of activists, organizers, and mutual aid.
Education is critical to confronting the climate crisis, and Taiwan offers an example of how to encourage kids to care about their environment.
Dolores and Rogelio navigate the political contrasts and conflicts of life in El Paso, Texas.
There’s an easy way for Biden to help restart the U.S. economy, invest in infrastructure, and repair environmental damage: Revive the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Anti-fat bias and diet obsession hurt everyone, says Aubrey Gordon. Her new book looks at the roots of that harm and what we can do about it.
The ambivalence surrounding Black Pete’s status in the Netherlands mirrors an international unease about the the function and significance of blackface images and performances globally.
A post-pandemic world will call for a more activist, community-centered approach to global development.
What a revolt’s archives tell us about who owns history.
I managed to rebuild my sense of self and safety starting the day I ran away from my father—only to then watch “him” win the White House in the guise of Donald Trump.
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