If we don’t address our cognitive dissonance, we’ll get stuck where we are, and diminish our capacity for progress.
Social Justice
The demand to “defund the police” asks politicians to go beyond platitudes and actually end the violence of policing, shifting resources in ways that promote the redistribution of wealth.
Cities across the U.S. are looking to citizen science for data on heat waves and other climate impacts.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent nearly 50 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard with no warning. Instead of being shunned, the migrants were welcomed and supported.
A new book of poetry by Paul Hlava Ceballos digs up the history of the ubiquitous fruit.
Native farmers want newcomers to know there’s nothing novel about caring for the land that grows our food.
This crisis is political as much as environmental. Solutions require justice.
We can work for safety and liberation by investing in community-based alternatives to policing, like mental health programs, public education, restorative justice practices, and economic justice.
Thanks to digitization, a fragile Tlingit ceremonial garment is once again teaching traditional weaving techniques.
“I can finally manage my PCOS in a healthy and sustainable way thanks to an unlikely ally: TikTok.”
Expecting people to speak a language in a specific way is more indicative of a colonial mindset and less of the speaker's ability to utilize and comprehend English.
The intersection of disability rights and abortion rights is complex.
How the queen and her reign is remembered depends on where the remembering is taking place—and by whom.
Dennis Hutson wants to recreate a Black farming paradise in California. First he has to adapt to the climate crisis.
Military recruiters count on economic hardship to lure young people of color to sign up. Counter-recruiters are working hard to thwart their efforts.
Guatemalan and Salvadoran immigrants helped organize far-reaching workers’ rights campaigns in industries that mainstream unions had thought to be untouchable.
The Supreme Court curbed the EPA’s ability to restrict emissions, so states are looking to enshrine rights to “healthful environments” in their constitutions.
Black and other farmers of color are seeing a restoration of land that was stolen or cheated from them as a key step to strengthening their economic power.
Experts on banking, public spending, and education policy look at the impact of Biden’s plan.
Have you ever seen a solar eclipse? A new book for readers of all ages explains the science behind the rare and wonderful event.
New York City’s Liberty Cleaners co-created an innovative training program that’s providing the skills to bring about their vision of the gig economy.
For the author of a new memoir, North Dakota was a place of beauty and danger.
Comedian W. Kamau Bell together with his co-author Kate Schatz have written a new activity book, chock full of coloring pages, crosswords, thought experiments and exercises.
These activists are working to ensure Indigenous perspectives are included in fields as diverse as education, health care, and scientific research.
Resmaa Menakem intersperses political commentary and predictions about American democracy with explanations of how racialized trauma presents in our bodies, and offers body-focused exercises to deal with it.
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