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“Strategic discrimination” is a subtle yet pervasive behavior that keeps people from voting for women and people of color.
“There’s something about immigrants that makes us almost expansive in our thinking, because in our neighborhood, the world meets.”
Living in the United States, I came to understand the ancient Mexican tradition of honoring the dead.
Federal law enforcement is concerned that the violent opposition to civil rights demonstrations and pandemic safety measures may foreshadow violence on Election Day or soon after. West Virginia officials are downplaying the threat.
Witchcraft is having a moment. But look past pop culture's teenaged spellbinders and consider the encouraging example of the unconventional crone.
Demanding an end to the escalating violence of Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad has mobilized youth across religious and ethnic divides.
Author Sady Doyle says LGTBQ teens need more representation in horror. So they wrote the book they’d wished they’d read when they were young.
How Nick and Jenny summoned the Devil and ushered in the apocalypse before they graduated from high school. (Also, they’re sorry about that.)
“We have every right to do our jobs and represent our communities without fearing for our safety.”
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, five quick tips that really do work!
This decision comes with the privileges of race, class, and citizenship status—which is why reproductive justice needs to be part of the climate conversation.
The founders of this nation did many things, but establishing democracy was not one of them. That’s our job.
We need to make it easier to understand basic climate science and emissions reductions.
There are some positive signs, but otherwise this is still the biggest trash fire of an election since… well, since 2016.
When Trump signed the “Muslim ban,” lawyer Tahmina Watson recruited a small army to provide free legal aid to immigrants. Then came the family separation policy.
The application deadline is Nov. 8, 2020.
Cooler weather means more time spent indoors, which requires greater precautions to avoid contracting or spreading the coronavirus.
As the U.S. braces for a seasonal uptick in COVID-19 cases, two public health researchers assess what’s worked for states to keep infection rates low.
Older generations have generally favored “nowism,” which privileges short-term well-being at the expense of long-term environmental and societal sustainability. And today’s youth are done with it.
Trump’s executive order can’t replace the protections and systems in the Affordable Care Act.
In Canada, as in the U.S., professional orchestras are overwhelmingly White. But Black classical musicians are finding ways to make sure they’re heard.
Amid suffering, joy is an incredibly powerful companion.
Diversifying your circle of friends is one of the biggest things you can do to reduce prejudice and bias in the world—and in yourself.
For fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz, making sourdough, kimchi, and kombucha is about more than eating well at home. It’s a metaphor for creative systemic change, bubbling away from the ground up.
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