A new guide provides resources to help those being returned to their countries of origin.
Maryland becomes the first state to consider recommendations for addressing its legacy of lynching.
No system is perfect, but there are many others around the world that do better than ours. We should follow their examples.
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An inspiring collaboration on the Pacific Coast blew fishery conservation goals out of the water.
There are many good books that capture the experiences of Latinx life. Most of them are written by Latinx authors and don’t reinforce stereotypes.
What do we mean when we talk about “socialism”? Here are ten things about its theory, practice, and potential that you need to know.
The trans and undocumented Latinas who started the Mirror Beauty Cooperative want it to be a model for equal pay and worker-ownership.
To get a big-picture perspective on the plastics that plague beaches, scientists team up with volunteers along the California Coast.
“Look at that little bald head,” Jewel Adams said. Moving toward Adams in the arms of her mother, and wearing a ruffled, magenta onesie, is 3-week-old Safiyah James. “Hi Sophia,”
Somali health care practitioners are addressing the cultural and medical concerns of women in their communities.
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
How do you support people forever attached to a landscape after an inferno tears through their homelands: decimating native food sources, burning through ancient scarred trees, and destroying ancestral and totemic plants
The parking lot of a North Carolina abortion clinic is at the center of a battle between anti-abortion protesters and clinic escorts.
We are entering humanity’s defining decade, and 2020 is when we have to make the hard decisions.
From the beginnings of computing, technology has been used to oppress or to liberate Black Americans.
It’s 2020, and YES! is formally launching a renewed effort to better communicate with you, our incredible, loyal, thoughtful, inspiring readers. The first step of this effort is the launch
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The U.S. economic system contributes to ongoing crises of addiction and mental health. The Scandinavians figured out the solutions decades ago.
White Sands is one of the few places that offers sledding in the summer. Guests to this site in southwest New Mexico can rent sleds at the visitor’s center and
Scholar-activists discuss the racialized complexities of being Asian American.
Is the U.S. really ready for change?
Between 2000 and 2010, nearly 250,000 minors were married in the U.S.
Cultural burning is proactive, while Western-style controlled burning, also called hazard reduction burning, is reactive.
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