Look to Norway and Sweden, where cooperative, socially democratic countries emerged after a frightening period of extreme polarization and social fracturing.
To address the bigotry that helped elect Trump, White people might consider the work ahead in their own families and communities.
Cities can offer shelter and protection to their vulnerable citizens and become a place progressives can exert real power.
There are 38 banks supporting the Dakota Access pipeline. I found out mine was one of them.
“We’re about protecting our future. And that’s what he should be about.”
Our task is to reject men’s claim to control women’s reproductive power and sexuality, while calling out White supremacy and a widening equality gap.
Don’t talk about moving to Canada or Costa Rica. Reach out to those who are vulnerable and promise to stand with them.
From reducing incarceration levels in Oklahoma to keeping kids out of adult prisons in California, voters gave a few significant wins to the rights of the incarcerated.
The Sioux tribe is facing a pro-oil president-elect with personal investments riding on the completion of the Dakota Access pipeline.
Here are three: Make room for your grief, be with friends, and don’t dismiss the people who voted for Donald Trump.
Four ways to turn election stress into courage and compassion.
This election will be the first in 50 years not to offer full protections under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But the Movement for Black Lives is hopeful.
Up to $460 million in credit is still at stake for the Bakken pipeline companies after DNB shed its pipeline assets and has begun a “fact-based evaluation” of indigenous rights abuses.
A four-month road trip showed me how many of us are already building a better America by working together.
Recent Standing Rock drone footage makes it clear that time is running out in the Dakota Access battle, and the fight for control of this land is becoming more urgent.
Across the country, an uneasy series of consultations between tribes and the U.S. government is under way. While some tribal leaders are skeptical, others hold out hope.
Politics is not a parlor game where good manners always win out. It involves questions of power and privilege, which cannot be solved merely with bipartisan brunches.
Right here, between the barricades on a North Dakota highway, is a pivotal confrontation between two world views, two futures.
After almost four years of McTeacher's Night fundraisers, teachers in the greater Los Angeles area are demanding the fast-food chain stop predatory marketing toward their students.
If voters pass Proposition 57, it could ease some of the juvenile justice system’s worst get-tough-on-crime elements from past decades.
Maine’s unique solution for clean elections involves $5 contributions and campaigns funded entirely by taxpayers. And it’s working.
Next year, the DOJ will collect nationwide data on police shootings and other violent encounters with the public. Is that enough progress?
The day 40 to 50 Native water protectors kept 250 militarized police from attacking camp.
The 76 million women who have been oppressed by rape culture and sexual trauma may turn out with surprising force on November 8.
Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner talks about being disinvited to introduce Bernie Sanders at the DNC, racism in America, and grassroots leadership.
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