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While much attention on the rising suicide rate focuses on youth, data shows that it's actually working-age adults who are being hit hardest.
A coming wave of Baby Boomer retirements threatens the survival of many small businesses. This initiative is making employee-ownership a more viable option.
From southern Nevada to New York City, the climate crisis is causing ongoing water problems. The Water Utility Climate Alliance is working hard to ensure cities are prepared.
A violent, racist history has kept Native people off their ancestral lands for decades. How can we remove the barriers that still exist today?
At 13, I was into chess and Dungeons and Dragons. That was the year I hit my growth spurt—and learned what it is to be seen not as a child, but as a threat.
End-of-life caregiving is an ancient practice that’s now re-emerging in the death positivity movement, which urges a shift in thinking about death as natural and not traumatic.
Resource extraction takes a toll on more than just the economy and the environment.
The new law promises to take taxpayer money back from Wall Street and reinvest it in communities.
These White people aren’t just checking their privilege. They’re using it to bring about positive racial change.
After traveling thousands of miles fleeing violence and discrimination, LGBTQ women find safety and support in Tapachula, Mexico.
I needed others to see me—to acknowledge my grief.
The climate crisis is our common cause, and we’ll need to elect a president that is willing to take it on.
When I learned that my first issue as editorial director of YES! would be on death, I cringed a bit. No one likes to think about death, much less talk about it. In fact, death might be more taboo to discuss than even sex or money. A recent survey found that only about a third of people had discussed making wills with their partners, or their wishes concerning their funerals. It’s almost as though we believe that dying doesn’t actually happen. At least not to us.
Private and individual donors—and recently a few states—have been stepping into a federal funding void to finance gun violence research.
Women’s leadership won’t be a panacea for the overwhelming whiteness of climate leadership, but it’s a starting place.
Congress is officially moving toward impeaching the president. But even then, it’s up to the people to keep our republic.
Two generations saw our Inuit and Dine homelands in Northern Canada nearly destroyed. Now my way of life is one of cultural repair.
Protest runs through the region’s veins like coal seams through the mountains.
Obtaining medically accurate information about abortion can be difficult yet dire for pregnant people desperate for answers.
Climate change requires closer attention to the changes in our environment.
A close look at the data reveals a clear path to survival on this crowded planet.
“Every single person can make a huge difference, and when we come together to work, anything is possible.”
Naomi Klein’s new book “On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal” is essential reading, but does it go far enough in confronting the grim realities we truly face?
The descendants of settlers and immigrants can’t become Indigenous to the land where we live. But we can follow the models of coexistence.
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