If raising a family on a McDonald’s salary wasn’t hard enough, Tina Sandoval is working to transform the fast-food industry into one that is good for both people and planet.
After the Orlando shooting, I was afraid that people would try to pit Queer communities and Muslim communities against each other. But what I have seen is the opposite.
Left out by traditional unions, women-led domestic workers are winning fights for minimum wage and overtime across the country.
I want my son to have male role models, female role models, and to know that families can look like anything. I want him to have options that I never did.
Bernie Sanders has the best policies. But Hillary Clinton has the chops to advance a progressive agenda—if we make her.
Three cases in which gun laws were tightened following tragic mass shootings.
Some have questioned if the economy can function with a guaranteed minimum income. But few advocates or opponents have explored the policy’s impact on people’s emotional well-being.
Terry Tempest Williams on the sacred earthworks of Effigy Mounds National Monument.
With 20 million refugees worldwide, the International Olympic Committee announces a new team to make the games more inclusive for people without a nation to call home.
To fight discrimination in Mississippi, out-of-state allies should strengthen their ties to the state, not sever them.
Five ways to build on the momentum of the Bernie Sanders campaign and transform American politics in ways his supporters envisioned.
Prisoners throughout Alabama and Texas reclaim their humanity—and power—by shutting down the economic infrastructure of their prisons.
Mosquitoes don’t like fans, and other tips to keep them off naturally.
When neighborhoods develop, longtime residents are often left out of the boom. This incubator helps local entrepreneurs turn big ideas into businesses.
The Southwest tribe is rebuilding sacred buildings critical for teaching Zuni youth the pueblo’s core values of community and devotion to collective prosperity.
In his new documentary, Josh Fox says we can use love to push aside the fear and hopelessness that comes with climate change.
More visitors than ever will head to national parks this summer. Here’s what we can do to keep the wild in wilderness—and set parks on a sustainable path for the next century.
Economist Guy Standing says the policy can reverse inequality. It also has an invigorating effect on volunteerism, home ownership, and community strength.
From Cornel West to Bill McKibben, Sanders picks some heavy-hitting social movement leaders for the Democratic National Committee.
Rising waters are quickly submerging the Sundarbans and drowning its livelihoods. As the region’s men leave to find stable income, women make the best of what remains.
Name-calling is Donald Trump’s stock-in-trade. Here are five more logical fallacies that kill political discourse and threaten democracy.
Current trade agreements have been of, by, and for transnational corporations. Growing opposition gives us the opportunity to change that in our next-generation agreements.
From a very early age, I had a sense of being gendered by the world. But I don’t feel like a woman or a man.
Employment options can be extremely limited for undocumented immigrants who can’t work legally. These single moms are relying on each other.
1 in 3 women will have an abortion by age 45.
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