“Sanctuary policies are legal, and Trump’s executive order is not.”
“Love people, use things, because the opposite never works.”
The memorial wall is 276 feet long—one foot for every Japanese person who lived on Bainbridge Island in 1942.
In South Carolina, a university president’s middle-of-the-road response to the executive order sparked a string of campuswide resistance efforts to protect the rights of international students.
In Kansas, a new matchmaking service is helping transition small businesses to new hands. Could it be a model for the rest of rural America?
It’s likely that the Trump-Ryan failure will push state legislatures to consider expanding Medicaid—putting even more people under the public insurance system.
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Since the president sees himself foremost as a negotiator, perhaps it’s time for a negotiated revolution. Not to break us apart, but to bring us together.
Research is showing that health care can be an engine for community change.
Our current political climate is volatile, scary, and uncertain. But maybe the not knowing and the confusion will finally allow us to arrive at a true beginning.
Last month, bank officials met face to face with leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux, and this week they announced the bank had sold the loan at the request of tribal leaders.
All along the Pacific Coast, environmentalists are gearing up for an epic fight.
How folks in conservative states are responding—and have been responding for years—to infringements on their civil rights.
As cities incorporate curricula that deconstruct stereotypes and negative assumptions about race, advocates say everyone wins. Others argue they just promote resentment.
Giving back requires humility. It will be a true test of learning new skills.
Trump has gone to Congress to make his case for Paul Ryan’s plan, but polls show the Affordable Care Act is still more popular.
Five reasons why the quest for constant happiness is misguided.
The ordinance provides a meaningful model for creating reparations at the local level.
Three principles to help you avoid burnout and continue working toward a better world.
While national outrage is focused on Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, tiny agencies helping communities that teeter on the edge of poverty would also disappear.
For these churches, giving protection to immigrants is no longer a matter of if, but when. And what will happen if ICE comes to their doors?
Poet Terrance Hayes on the James Baldwin documentary: “It seemed, for a moment, we had come around a big bend on the racial mountain. It seemed, for a moment, we were beyond Negro.”
New college programs offer fledgling community organizers “a sense of optimism about how they can effect change in their own backyard.”
Although many people in these struggling regions voted for the new president, his cynical answers will not bring them prosperity. But I saw what could.
When large institutions like universities and hospitals agree to hire and spend locally, they can transform neighborhoods hardest hit by poverty and unemployment.
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