Natriya Rampey is a photographer in Loudoun County, Virginia. She and other portrait photographers around the country are documenting quarantine life through portraits, often taken from a car. Rampey uses
Randy Kafka serves as rabbi of Temple Kol Tikvah in Sharon, Massachusetts. She is a board member of Brockton Interfaith Community (BIC), a community organizing group, and she co-founded Sharon
Historically we know current events tend to effect gun sales—and this influx is coming from first-time firearm buyers.
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Volunteer crisis responses are crucial in an emergency. But can they make lasting change?
Our shared survival requires closing the gap forever, not just in an emergency moment.
The five principles of the "People's Bailout".
Small joys are essential for resilience.
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What better time than now, when
we’re slowed down and trying to ward off contagions, to look to traditional medicines to fortify our immunity?
Decrease in U.S. death row population, Jan. 1, 2000 to Jan. 1, 2020: 28.8%1, 2 Decrease in annual U.S. executions, 1999 to 2019: 77.6%2 Number of U.S. jurisdictions that have
A warning about Big Tech and undbridled captialism.
In the fast fasion era, mending worn garments is a quietly revolutionary act.
The front lines include health care and emergency workers—and also the essential workers whose job it is to drive other essential workers where they need to be.
A traditional gathering place where the public meets the private is now the critical point of contact for families isolated during the pandemic.
If farmers can learn such ways from nature, what about the rest of us?
“When you have humans and you have heart, you’re pretty much used to doing what you have to do to make things happen.”
In many ways, this forced pause embodies the spirit of Ramadan, focusing on slowing down, and making deeper spiritual connections.
Experts weigh in on the state of our food system, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Like many of you, I've experienced grief—deep personal grief, shared familial grief, collective community grief. But until the COVID-19 pandemic, I had not felt a part of an immense and widespread global grief. So often we in the United States watch from a distance as epidemics, famines, and wars plague other parts of the world. But now we’re in it too—sheltering in place, social distancing, wearing masks and gloves in public—and dying—right alongside people in Italy, Japan, South Africa, and most other countries.
Like many of you, I've experienced grief—deep personal grief, shared familial grief, collective community grief. But until the COVID-19 pandemic, I had not felt a part of an immense and widespread global grief. So often we in the United States watch from a distance as epidemics, famines, and wars plague other parts of the world. But now we’re in it too—sheltering in place, social distancing, wearing masks and gloves in public—and dying—right alongside people in Italy, Japan, South Africa, and most other countries.
It’s time to think big about housing. No more evictions and foreclosures. Rent and mortgage cancellation on a grand scale. Twelve million new green housing units in the next 10
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