Blockbuster series like Twilight have left their mark on a generation of girls, but what message are they sending boys? Here are a few to look out for.
The greenest burial places essentially transform the cemetery into a nature preserve—and a "posthumous occupation" of a $20 billion funeral industry.
Much of the momentum in the movement to reform the use of solitary confinement in the United States comes from the work of prisoners themselves.
David Korten's new essay (available to read as a PDF) connects the work of finding a new sacred story with the effort to build a new economy.
The United States cannot legitimately lead an international response to the illegal Russian aggression in Ukraine until it abides by international law itself.
A hunger strike in a Washington state detention facility draws attention to a facility where most U.S. laws don't apply.
In her new book, Diane Ravitch—one of the leading thinkers behind the controversial Bush-era law—explores how the faulty logic of high-stakes testing, charter school expansion, and privatization hinders education.
Parents, students, and teachers all over the country have joined the revolt to liberate our kids from a test-obsessed education system.
Community responses to the Elk River chemical spill draw on West Virginia's long, proud history of grassroots work for environmental and economic justice.
If the governments of Costa Rica and El Salvador can resist the mining industry, maybe we all can.
Beyond the dangers of derailment and explosions, Seattleites are worried about oil-by-rail shipping's effect on the climate. Here's what they did about it.
Researchers continue to debate whether people face a genuine trade-off between seeking a happy life and a meaningful one.
In the tradition of “Maus” and “Persepolis,” “March” tells the story of young African Americans who, like its author, rose up from the Jim Crow South to assert their human rights.
What do right-wing TV anchors think low-income people should eat? Not salmon, apparently.
“The United States of Energy” was a colorful series of lessons on the advantages of coal, aimed at 4th-graders—and sponsored by Big Coal. Here’s how educators and activists worked together to get it out of classrooms.
Shannen Koostachin, a teenage activist who died before ever seeing the results of her work, has inspired a new hero in the DC Universe.
In 1885, a revolutionary leader wrote, "My people will sleep for one hundred years" and then wake up. In the "genocidal" wilderness of Canada's tar sands, that renaissance has begun.
An influential study's failure to consider factors like poverty, race, and immigration concealed the fact that scores were improving.
I've learned to embrace the dreams I most deeply desire, but also the burdens that so often work against them.
In our increasingly interdependent world, mayors may be more motivated to collaborate and possibly more capable than our national governments of effectively working across borders.
This weekend could turn out to be the largest act of civil disobedience at the White House in a generation.
When it comes to limiting digital rights, big companies are in cahoots with governments like never before. But the belief that everyone deserves safe, affordable, and private access to the Internet is taking off.
The upcoming Academy Awards will recognize some of 2013’s best social justice-themed films. Here are some of our favorite past winners.
Can you be a revolutionary and a mayor? Chokwe Lumumba—who spent eight months as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, before he died—did his best to be both.
Recent studies suggest that coal mining affects the health of everyone who lives nearby—not just those who work in the mines.
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