Trans Youth Are Teaching Schools How to Actually Support Them
The education system is failing transgender youth, but one school in Canada is striving to create a new support model.
Political Power
YES! believes in the fundamental right of people to determine their own political future, and reports on efforts to expand access to democracy and voter enfranchisement, while also acknowledging the limits of electoral politics, and “democracy” as it has been used as a bludgeon by imperial powers.
Pride Is Power: How Queer People Are Defeating Anti-LGBTQ Laws
Faced with unprecedented numbers of anti-LGBTQ bills, queer people are taking to the state houses, courts, and communities to prove that love wins.
Serj Tankian Says “Down With the System”
System of a Down lead singer Serj Tankian has performed in front of millions, but, as he explains in his new memoir, his real passion is social justice.
Can Elections Still Help Defund Police?
Efforts to invest in “care, not cops” continue in advance of the 2024 election—albeit at a slower pace than in 2020.
Access to Past Tribal Constitutions Can Help Tribes Shape Their Futures
A new database of tribal constitutions tells a more nuanced history of self-governance than the one explained in textbooks.
Lessons From Pitzer’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment
“By raising the Palestinian flag we force our universities to confront their complicity in Israeli apartheid and the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” writes recent graduate Bella Jacobs.
Planning Parenthood for Incarcerated Men
An innovative sex-ed curriculum in Southern California is teaching incarcerated men about consent, birth control, and dismantling masculinity.
Addressing America’s Political Amnesia
Have voters forgotten about the slide toward fascism precipitated by Trump? Journalist Tara McGowan sounds the alarm.
How Disabled Voters Are Accessing Democracy
The vast majority of U.S. polling locations are not fully accessible. Disability justice activists are working to change that.
Can Women Win?
It will take concerted action to ensure that women belong in the House.
Sacred Sustenance
Fifty years ago, the Boldt decision reaffirmed Indigenous fishing rights and recognized tribes as equal partners in resource management.
Campus Protests Continue as ICC Issues Arrest Warrants
Investigative reporter Arun Gupta analyzes the latest news on Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The Immigrants’ Rights Movement Must Be Multiracial
To reach its full potential, the immigrants’ rights movement needs to reject anti-Blackness and build a coalition as diverse as the people who comprise it.
Professors Lift Up Student Protests
Some educators are using their institutional positions to help create safe spaces for student activism and challenge policies that restrict free speech.
Students for Gaza Are Undeterred
Beaten, doxxed, threatened, arrested, and suspended, college students learned from past movements to put their bodies on the line for Gaza.
UCLA Faculty Defend Student Activists
UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley offers insight on how faculty are supporting pro-Palestine students who are facing violence from Zionists and the LAPD.
Inside a Free Gaza Campus Hub
In a special report from Cal State LA’s newly established Free Gaza encampment, a student and a community activist speak out.
Why So Many Young Asian Americans Stand With Palestine
This Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, let’s celebrate anti-war organizers.
Bringing France’s Waste Prevention Plan to Life
Regional waste-reduction programs hold lessons for communities across the globe.
Jewish Students Central to Free Gaza Campus Protests
A Jewish American student takes us inside the Free Gaza encampment at Bryn Mawr College, part of the student uprising demanding an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Students Speak Out From Free Gaza Encampment
Students at San Francisco State University’s Free Gaza encampment share why they are demanding divestment from Israel.
Inside the Campus Uprising for Palestine
Students and faculty at colleges nationwide are walking out, occupying their campus grounds, and demanding an end to the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Photo Essay: The Healing Power of Matriarchs
A photographer’s connections with eight Indigenous women have helped her come to terms with her own Native ancestry and colonial trauma.
Why Are Elite Schools So Attached to the SAT?
Research shows the SAT is racist, sexist, and classist. So why are some elite schools reinstating the test as an admission requirement?
Activists Organize Gaza “Freedom Flotilla”
In the face of global inaction on Israel’s genocide, activists will sail to Gaza to bring desperately needed aid directly to Palestinians.
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