Where gun access gets easier and abortion access gets harder, women pay the price.
Reading the celebrated author is a fitting way to mark the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship arriving on U.S. shores.
Food security, traditional agriculture, and local self-reliance are key to regenerative societies of the future, say water protectors taking the movement’s lessons forward.
Breakups happen to friends, too. Here’s how to find closure, while preserving your heart and dignity.
If games are a reflection of our values as a society, and can influence how we think and act, can we game our way to a better world?
…and they want to bring back “The Good Death.”
For disabled people, getting around Seattle is a constant challenge. This app wants to make it easier and safer.
The Detroit Blk Gurls Do Tarot Facebook group empowers women in traditional spiritualities.
For African Americans, homegoings are the ultimate form of liberation.
Humanity’s existential crisis can be resolved only when we the people stand united behind a vision of the world we truly want.
Fossil fuel leasing on public lands is worsening the climate crisis. But there's hope.
Composting toilets keep waste out of the water cycle. But have you heard about the phosphorus cycle?
When capitalism supplanted communism in Mongolia, state-run co-ops disappeared and rural communities suffered. Now the herders are bringing back the practice for their own survival.
In New Orleans, colorful street festivals celebrating death grew out of necessity, incorporating West African rhythms and syncretized dance.
Green burials go beyond not polluting or wasting. It’s about people needing and caring for land, conducting life-affirming activities there—including death.
A successful Green New Deal will integrate what we know about carbon, emissions, and pollution into policies related to agriculture and land use.
Native Hawaiians and other Indigenous peoples need more authority in the federal and state project processes that affect them.
Despite racist and anti-immigrant scapegoating, data shows that most American terrorists are resentful White men inspired by White supremacist and misogynist rhetoric.
The Mississippi immigration raid detained hundreds and left children stranded on the first day of school. It also evoked a massive humanitarian response in a state not traditionally friendly to immigrants.
Helicopter parenting sparked an alternative movement to give children more independence—but not everyone can share that privilege.
The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that agriculture is responsible for 37% of greenhouse gas emissions. There’s hope—and a solution.
Being a woman veteran is complicated. Being a survivor of military sexual trauma is even more so.
On the fifth anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, his family and the town of Ferguson look to the past—and future—to bring about meaningful change.
The first article in this six-part series explores how the wars on drugs and poverty were actually wars on people, making the case for reparations as a way toward peace.
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