The relatively new equity crowdfunding seeks investors expecting a return, not donors supporting a project. But the project must improve a community.
When famous midwife Ina May Gaskin suggested that Black mothers should make better lifestyle choices to have healthier babies, the Black birth world decided they’d had enough.
This is the real-world economy for a living Earth that we must learn to structure and manage to provide a safe space for humanity.
Are chimps legally entitled to the same rights as humans? This radio story highlights a recent story involving personhood for chimps. YES! Magazine’s Susan Gleason speaks with Senior Editor James Trimarco.
Economic relief agencies as well as support for arts and culture got nearly a five-month reprieve from the more radical cuts proposed in Trump’s budget.
This 86-year-old civil rights leader believes reconciliation is the only way forward.
Increase access to generics, end “evergreening” drug patents, and other ways to put people before profits.
Undocumented immigrants in detention are four times more likely to win a custody hearing if they have a lawyer.
Residents of Iowa’s first Hispanic-majority town don’t need sanctuary city policies to support their immigrant neighbors.
A unique alliance among tribes, ranchers, and other landowners in Nebraska regroups to resist fossil fuel development like the Keystone XL.
Rights for many intelligent animals could hinge on a one-word edit in a law dictionary.
Public money and public universities boost Big Pharma’s profits, so shouldn’t the public be able to afford the drugs?
Our food system is built on stolen land and exploited labor. Here’s what we can do to fix it.
Because 6 percent of U.S. workers checked their work email when they or their spouse were in labor.
We must protect the parks, pathways, and gardens that connect us to each other and to the ecosystems of our home.
Single people are redefining the meaning of home, family, and community for the 21st century.
Watch this movie to get inspired about saving seeds. And then do it.
Critics of nonviolence say that option is the prerogative of the privileged. But actually it’s the other way around.
France (and many of the world’s governments) has figured out that the only way to secure democracy is to require an electoral majority.
This weekend’s march is a start. A climate scientist urges us to follow through in our personal lives as well as in our community.
Climate scientists are learning how to choose their words carefully in response to inaccurate but emotive imagery.
Put them on posters.
AARP has awarded the Association of Young Americans a $35,000 grant—and both organizations say it’s just the beginning of their relationship.
Has Trump served us all in breaking things open? Only if we use the moment for serious rethinking of policy.
Robert Reich: Do Not Pretend Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Inconsistent, Arbitrary, or Without Principle
The first principle of the Trump Doctrine: People from Muslim countries may enter the U.S. if their country contains a building with Trump’s name on it.
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