In Louisville, the group is purchasing vacant homes for low-income families to promote stability in the community and fight gentrification.
The Juicebox app connects people with sex coaches to get their questions answered—anonymously.
Here’s how one cattle ranching family in South Dakota restored a prairie, wildlife habitat, and a creek.
The founders of the United States have the society they wanted—one that keeps people like them in power.
Finally, plant species have rights, too.
How a focus on peace is helping this Central American country top the Happy Planet Index.
My nonprofit converts buses into fully functioning, attractive 240-square-foot tiny houses on wheels for homeless children and their parents.
An excerpt from Jason Lutes’ decades-in-the-making book, with distinct echoes of our current political climate.
And it’s not just about rich and poor. The racial wealth gap is damaging to the economy as a whole.
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: End hunger.
Our White youth should expect us to demand better behavior from them.
It’s bold, it’s inclusive. And Ocasio-Cortez and the young generation behind it understand that economic power needs to be met by people power.
What does a Donkey Kong fundraiser have to do with the annual gathering of the world’s elite capitalists in Davos? They both mark a cultural turning point.
I’ve learned a lot about how to be an ordinary person, filled with self-doubt, who still takes the risk of trying to do something about the world.
Despite their vulnerability to climate change, people with disabilities often are omitted from relevant policy making.
Tucson’s alternative approach to growth preserves its older building stock and spurs a downtown renaissance.
From poverty and women’s rights to public health and the environment, we’re making strides.
The viral social media campaign #ShoutYourAbortion is now a book that celebrates life and freedom as much as choice.
Cincy Stories gives people a platform to share their stories and build connections.
Dr. King was widely disliked for his message of liberation for oppressed people in this country—Black people, Brown people, Native people, all poor people.
Native musicians played an oversize role in the history of American music. A documentary to air on PBS sets the record straight.
Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience.
The film “Fruitvale Station” told the story of Grant’s death on a train platform. Now his family is building bridges between police and their communities.
A radical pessimist’s glossary of exploitative economics.
“The United States is one of the richest countries in the world. So why can’t we have X?” We hear this question all the time, where X is universal health
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