Arnsberg, Germany’s Department of Future Aging is dedicated to ensuring quality of life for its residents over age 55.
Embracing joy as part of our everyday lives can expand our ability to heal ourselves and our communities.
After being hit hard at the beginning of the pandemic, the Arizona-based tribe has slowed the spread of the disease and helped curb death rates.
A Vermont nonprofit is connecting independent farms with buyers and distributors, reducing food surplus and working to eliminate food insecurity.
If we want to bridge political divides, we can start by being mindful of the words we use.
Arizona activists fighting voter suppression at home join a freedom ride reminiscent of the civil rights era.
Why don’t we know more about joyful Black spaces?
A grassroots group in Kenya has found a slow-but-effective formula for converting anti-LGBT faith leaders into LGBT advocates.
It’s time to catch up with the global community in enacting a permanent national paid leave policy and other caregiving supports.
Akron, Ohio's “shop local“ app has created half a million dollars of economic activity since it launched last summer. Now, Boston wants to capture some of that magic.
To care for their disabled children, the fathers I met had to grow beyond the usual ideas of “what men do.”
The same ethical failing that allowed White people to enslave Africans continues today with indifference to continued Black suffering. It’s time to say “enough.”
Observances and paid holidays alone can’t fix the problems caused by White supremacy.
It was okay to be gay in the Marine Cooks and Stewards. And in the 1940s, MCS integrated to become one of the most progressive unions in the United States.
Most apps collect and store data. Now some Muslim developers are trying to keep that practice consistent with the tenets of Islam.
There is no point at which we can no longer strive to make the future better than it otherwise would be.
People are taking to the streets to resist repression, from the U.S. to Japan.
We must redistribute wealth and not look at it as a favor, but a call to action
Exclusionary laws banning transgender youth from team sports are not only unsportsmanlike, they’re also rooted in falsehoods, says this trans journalist.
Join YES! for the Plastic Free Ecochallenge, a month-long effort to help all of us to shift away from our single-use plastic dependency and to care for our ecosystems.
The writer and activist Robert Jensen does a close reading of Ijeoma Oluo’s latest book, and considers what we need to dismantle for our mutual survival.
The U.S. territory has not had any abortion providers since 2018, and antiquated laws are preventing women from obtaining those services.
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it.
Often erased from history, scholars are now realizing that transgender and nonbinary people have existed in most human societies across time.
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