Jerry Ashton and Craig Antico spent decades hounding debtors to pay their bills—until an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street inspired them to find a way to pay struggling people's debts.
Sad Puppies, Rabid Chauvinists: Will Raging White Guys Succeed in Hijacking Sci-Fi’s Biggest Awards?
More and more women have been nominated for Hugo Awards in recent years—until this year. Here’s what’s at stake.
The criticism aimed at Marissa Johnson and Mara Willaford has ranged from the deeply piercing to the explicitly racist. But what they did was necessary, a welcome harbinger of more direct disruption.
YES! co-founder Sarah van Gelder sets out on a road trip to find the edge of change.
Graduates of an “Inside-Out” program in Oregon say that the experience transformed the way they see the prison system—and themselves.
$11.85 trillion in household debt has more to do with stagnant wages (and predatory banks) than shopping sprees.
This week we’re talking about the future of work, a "masculine studies" program... and goats.
A new feminist children's book honors 26 awesome women who changed the world.
How can we get the most out of our farmland without harming the planet? I traveled to rural Mexico to learn from indigenous farmers.
Every year, governments spend tens of billions of dollars on tax breaks for private companies. Now, state and city governments will have to start reporting it as lost income.
Jason Segel steers away from his usual funny guy persona in "The End of the Tour," and plays the late "Infinite Jest" author David Foster Wallace.
A new study shows that meditation can transform racial bias at any age.
Like reading the news while chomping on granola. Here’s what we've been chewing on lately.
How the Medicine Wheel can guide us to transform communities that have suffered from racial injustice
For a few hours in July, 78 percent of Germany's power was generated by renewables like solar and wind. The country is spending €200 billion to move away from fossil fuels permanently.
A New York City co-op raises $1.2 million in pledges to fight gentrification and provide affordable rent for local business owners.
Funded by state cap-and-trade revenue, Los Angeles' program will introduce an electric car-sharing fleet to lower carbon emissions and serve disadvantaged communities.
This week: Bee activists step up their game, Bernie Sanders lays out his views on all thing politicals, and fracking takes its toll on Oklahoma.
In a state that lost 88 percent of its textile industry jobs in just 10 years, small worker-owned cooperatives are islands of rights and resilience.
New York and San Francisco both suffer from soaring rents and gentrification, despite decades of regulation. How Seattle socialist Kshama Sawant plans to do affordable housing right.
I hate clutter, and one morning I just couldn't take it anymore. Here's how I got my kids to throw out their toys and tidy up our house.
As the documentary Kumu Hina reveals, living between both genders is the more powerful “mahu" way.
“It’s not about freeloading. It’s about what we’re willing to extend to each other as a society.”
Alex Landau was raised by adoptive white parents, who believed skin color didn’t matter. But when Denver cops pulled him over in 2009, he nearly lost his life.
Our isolated life on the farm keeps my family close, but it can also stand in the way of my daughter becoming her own person.
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