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Issues
Healing Generational Trauma
For Black and Indigenous communities, it takes more than therapy and medicine to tackle mental illness. We need a holistic approach.
Being the Change
Living sustainably can serve as quiet persuasion for those who may be turned off by scolding and hypocrisy.
Reforming Laws From Behind Bars
Prison reformists—many of whom are serving long sentences—have united to change the cruel and arbitrary carceral system.
Letting Go of Myths, Embracing Truths
By first transforming and reimagining ourselves, we all have an opportunity before us to truly transform our organizations and reimagine our work.
Personal Journeys
Your work starts with you.
The YES! Crossword: Leader of the Pack
Play the puzzle from our Personal Journeys issue.
A Handbook for Abolitionists
Patrisse Cullors’ new book offers guidance for personal, as well as systemic, change. Breaking the cycle of harm starts with us.
On Unraveling and Resilience
In a world unraveling due to climate change, an environmental scientist looks to Indigenous stories of resilience.
Taking Back Our Focus
In "Stolen Focus," Johann Hari unplugs from digital media and regains his concentration.
Preventing Prison and Recidivism
These three activists are working to support people at risk of either going to prison for the first time or returning to prison after release.
Rediscovering Nature and Myself
This spring, focus on reconnecting to foodways as a means to reconnect to your inner self during this season of emergence, renewal, and growth.
How Vulnerability Creates Change
Sharing a deeply personal story with the world helped me realize that vulnerability is a powerful tool to create change and inspire others to follow along.
A New Social Justice
The theme for our 100th issue was inspired by the political earthquake of 2020 and the butterfly model of transformative social justice.
The Third Reconstruction
New momentum in the continuing march toward a more equitable society.
Justice at the Heart of Climate Activism
The modern environmental justice movement understands the health of the planet and well-being of people are connected.
Lending on Character, Not Credit Scores
Conventional banking hasn't worked for businesses owned by people of color. But a new network is designed to get money flowing fairly to BIPOC economies.
Awakenings: The Collaborations That Create Change
Movements adapt and evolve toward a new social justice.
Put Philanthropy on the Front Lines
How to decolonize wealth through reparations.
When Reparations Grow From the Grassroots
Until federal reparations happen, local organizations across the country are stepping up.
The Healing Work of Returning Stolen Lands
The Wiyot Tribe regained its sacred island home after decades of unrelenting prayer and relationship-building.
A Moon-Inspired Menu
Following a lunar-inspired menu means eating seasonal and hyperlocal ingredients.
100 Things You Can Do to Help in the Climate Crisis
In case you needed help getting started.
Fighting Back for Abortion Rights
As more states enact punitive laws restricting abortions, reproductive justice organizations look for new ways to regain ground and expand their movements.
The Page That Counts
Share of U.S. adults who “lack proficiency in literacy,” reading below the sixth-grade level: 52% [1] Share of adults with the lowest literacy levels who live in poverty: 43%
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