Truth and Redistribution
How to fix the racial wealth gap, end plutocracy, and build Black power.
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The Great White Heist
Slavery is the usual argument for reparations. But there’s another reason.
What #DefundPolice Can Do For Public Safety
Cities imagine taking away resources from racist, oppressive policing and putting it toward public safety and social services.
Rebellions Work
We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us.
Readers Respond
Ideas on “The World We Want” Love the idea behind this edition. Some of us have been using the word “enchantivism” to describe forms of storytelling that might start in breakdown,
What Indian Country Remembers About Survival
The community care at the heart of Indigenous response.
What’s in a Social Justice Diet?
You can make whatever diet you’re currently eating even healthier.
The Light at the End
The pandemic is remaking who we are. It is an opening to a new world where our capacity to love each other is integral to our survival.
It’s Not as Simple as Rebellion
The ability to hold paradoxes is one of the key demands for climate leadership.
New Ways of Being
A few days ago, I came downstairs to stretch my legs after being holed up working in our home’s little spare-room-turned-office. The back door was open, and I heard squealing.
YES! Issue Contributors
Natriya Rampey is a photographer in Loudoun County, Virginia. She and other portrait photographers around the country are documenting quarantine life through portraits, often taken from a car. Rampey uses
Why I Give
Randy Kafka serves as rabbi of Temple Kol Tikvah in Sharon, Massachusetts. She is a board member of Brockton Interfaith Community (BIC), a community organizing group, and she co-founded Sharon
Where Heroic Resistance Looks Like Knitting and Baseball
A warning about Big Tech and undbridled captialism.
In a Breaking World, Mending Takes on More Meaning
In the fast fasion era, mending worn garments is a quietly revolutionary act.
Riding the Waves of Mutual Aid
Volunteer crisis responses are crucial in an emergency. But can they make lasting change?
A Chance to Cure America’s Preexisting Condition: Extreme Inequality
Our shared survival requires closing the gap forever, not just in an emergency moment.
How to Fund a Just Economic Recovery
The five principles of the "People's Bailout".
When Savoring a Pleasant Moment Is a Radical Act
Small joys are essential for resilience.
Diversifying the Tech Workforce
People We Love
5 Ways to Eat a Rose
What better time than now, when
we’re slowed down and trying to ward off contagions, to look to traditional medicines to fortify our immunity?
The Page that Counts
Decrease in U.S. death row population, Jan. 1, 2000 to Jan. 1, 2020: 28.8%1, 2 Decrease in annual U.S. executions, 1999 to 2019: 77.6%2 Number of U.S. jurisdictions that have
A Square Mile of “Ready for Anything”
“When you have humans and you have heart, you’re pretty much used to doing what you have to do to make things happen.”
We Had Forgotten That We Are Ecological Beings
If farmers can learn such ways from nature, what about the rest of us?
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