A sexist, racist history of anti-fatness and a for-profit “health” industry has left the U.S. with a weight problem—but not in the way you might think.
As the coal industry declines, rural communities are seeking new economic stability—but prisons may not be the answer.
While corporate media spread distraction and propaganda, whistleblowers step up to reveal abuses of power and defend the public's right to know.
Resilience practices and culturally rooted health traditions show promise for overcoming trauma in real-life settings.
The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative is focusing on food insecurity and community investment.
Thom Hartmann on why we should use constitutional solutions to rescue our democracy from the agendas of billionaires and corporations.
For a branch of government originally conceived as the weakest of the three, the high court has taken much more power for itself in the past 230 years.
The Congresswoman resigned after having an affair with a campaign aide, but she’s also a crime victim, and those two facts don’t cancel each other out.
How immigrants have brought diverse traditions to keep their ancestors and dead loved ones close.
The tiny mammals are essential to human comfort; without them, we wouldn’t have things like avocados, chocolate, and tequila.
The Alliance for Boys and Men of Color’s Healing Together Campaign aims to end intimate partner violence by advocating for policy changes—and seeking healing for both survivors and the people who harm them.
One million women and girls around the world offered answers. Now their responses are influencing reproductive health care policy.
Keeping communities safe against hateful rhetoric will require a bold, expansive vision.
Thanks to a union of land cooperatives, people in Puebla have food sovereignty and education in Nahuatl instead of mega-projects and a Walmart.
In his new book, the professor challenges traditional definitions of racism, and who can be racist.
In Canada, Inuit and academic health care researchers have teamed up to combat poor cultural awareness in mainstream health care services.
Experts weigh in on ways to deal with microaggressions that don’t burden Black, Indigenous, and people of color who experience them daily.
The 130-year legacy of fire suppression in the U.S. is a process that continues to dispossess Native peoples of their lands.
Farmers adopting regenerative agricultural practices across the Midwest are restoring the health of the soil and of their rural economies.
No ruling, even from the highest court in the land, will invalidate state and city-level protections.
Reflecting on yesterday’s grassroots demands for restitution provides solutions for today.
From reinstating voting rights of those with felony convictions to helping people obtain IDs, grassroots and state-level efforts are making it easier to vote.
A walk into the future, in a British city where housing is sustainable, energy is locally owned, food is abundant, and the work week is just three days long.
Would the possibility of mandatory sentencing make a police officer think twice before pulling the trigger? What about them having to forego their pensions, or pay victims’ families from their 401Ks?
A new generation of Native activists will take a canoe journey around Alcatraz to mark Indigenous Peoples Day and pay homage to occupation of the island 50 years ago.
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