The city exhibits all of the problems the framework is meant to heal.
The environmental activist says surviving an existential threat like climate change requires honesty—and hope.
Overproduction and planned obsolescence are the new normal. But fixing your broken things is a way to resist—and build community.
Our emotional energy can be a source of power.
Author and end-of-life educator Sallie Tisdale gets real about death and dying.
Time and time again women have proven that viewers are interested in the stories they tell.
While student–family events are well-intentioned, they can also exclude certain students. Teachers are pushing for activities that include all the important adults in a child’s life.
Two art projects explore the impact of gun violence, with a focus on mass shootings and police brutality.
A grassroots movement encourages non-Native city dwellers to pay monthly reparations to the Duwamish, a Native American tribe that’s petitioned for federal recognition for the last 40 years.
In many rural areas, a lack of banking options has led to an increase in predatory lending. In eastern Kentucky, a new nonprofit is fighting back.
The Freedom Songbook workshop was designed to provide a creative safe space for survivors, and prevent isolation and other PTSD-related issues permeating Black communities.
Now the Trump Administration wants to reopen it.
The fires that spread swiftly across the Amazon in recent weeks drew international attention to a problem Indigenous Brazilians have been facing for years.
Efforts to end partisan gerrymandering suffered a blow in the Supreme Court, but the push to end it now moves to state legislatures, starting with North Carolina.
Twice in 20 years, a president has won office without winning the popular vote. A new movement is looking to change that.
“It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us.”
A huge share of U.S. employment is in low-wage jobs where workers are pushed to their limits to maximize profits for massive corporations.
Building a new world will require first reexamining—and dismantling—the cultural ethos of productivity that creeps into our lives every day.
In the face of the climate crisis imperiling endangered species, some activists and governments are turning to a radical, rights-based approach to protect nature.
Part two of this six-part series explores the plurality of reparations that includes Black people’s spiritual and psychological healing.
“Like racism, violence and white supremacy, heat is inextricable from the Black American experience.”
For families of missing or disappeared persons, mourning the ambiguous loss of their loved ones is complex.
Developing technology that doesn’t perpetuate racism demands putting social values before profit.
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