“When I think of the many ways we—laborers, neighbors, people in community with one another—are failing each other, I think first and foremost of the institution of work as we know it.”
The Dutch art of niksen—intentionally doing nothing, letting the mind wander—is much needed in our over-scheduled lives.
I am privileged to be able to say that I love the work I do. I find meaning, purpose, and even a sense of identity in my work here at YES! Media. But I also know that, compared to many people in this country, I am in the minority.
Our work environment is deeply dysfunctional. But making systemic change requires understanding how we got here.
Long-underpaid undergrad students who work on campus are increasingly seeing the value of their labor and organizing unions.
Young workers, women, and people of color are combining digital innovation with old-school face-to-face organizing to build a new labor movement.
Cafe Euphoria isn’t just another co-op. Its trans and gender-nonconforming owners are pursuing a vision of radical equality.
Environmental and labor activists have found success collaborating at the local and state levels. Now they have their eyes on federal policy.
Direct payments to home-based child care providers can sustain them and the essential work they do to care for the children of working Americans.
Our profit-driven health care system pushes workers to the breaking point. What would it look like to take back our power?
Rest is not antithetical to work. We cannot imagine work without it.
Activists have long suggested that oppressive institutions should be abolished rather than reformed. The same could be said about labor.
Late summer and fall offer a bounty of berries bursting with flavor—and healing potential.
Landscape endures even when the infrastructure of hubris cannot.
These activists are working to ensure Indigenous perspectives are included in fields as diverse as education, health care, and scientific research.
Years from 1972 to 2022 that Republicans have controlled the presidency: 29 Years from 1972 to 2022 that Democrats have controlled the presidency: 22 Number of Supreme Court justices appointed
Home. The thought of it conjures up a tangle of images, of safeness and permanence and comfortable refuge. Home is also tenuous shelter under a busy overpass, in a neighborhood
Resmaa Menakem intersperses political commentary and predictions about American democracy with explanations of how racialized trauma presents in our bodies, and offers body-focused exercises to deal with it.
Degrowth invites us to envision a much deeper societal transition than simply swapping energy sources to maintain the status quo.
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Sarah Gilman is an independent writer, illustrator, and editor who covers the environment, natural history, science, and place. She spent 11 years as a staff and contributing editor at High
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