The Practical Farmers of Iowa waste no time on partisan politics as they face the challenges of extreme weather and depleted soils.
A little more financial security could make the difference between life and death for these women, who are often relegated to the margins of society.
Reparations is no longer only about a one-time payout to Black descendants of slavery.
The old exploitative images are indelible: out of work, White, needy. They obscure the region’s diversity and long tradition of activism.
It’s about more than dancing and lip-syncing to disco hits. These drag queens are working to make the world a better place.
The United States has yet to live up to its foundational ideals of a union where “all [people] are created equal,” and deserving of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Today, we find ourselves polarized along so many different axes—race, politics, gender—that many people have retreated to the extremes. We look at those different from us not just as others, but sometimes as enemies.
At a time of heightened polarization and intense inequality in the United States and around the world, social differences run the risk of being turned into fault lines, and exploited
A sexist, racist history of anti-fatness and a for-profit “health” industry has left the U.S. with a weight problem—but not in the way you might think.
As the coal industry declines, rural communities are seeking new economic stability—but prisons may not be the answer.
While corporate media spread distraction and propaganda, whistleblowers step up to reveal abuses of power and defend the public's right to know.
Resilience practices and culturally rooted health traditions show promise for overcoming trauma in real-life settings.
The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative is focusing on food insecurity and community investment.
Thom Hartmann on why we should use constitutional solutions to rescue our democracy from the agendas of billionaires and corporations.
For a branch of government originally conceived as the weakest of the three, the high court has taken much more power for itself in the past 230 years.
The Congresswoman resigned after having an affair with a campaign aide, but she’s also a crime victim, and those two facts don’t cancel each other out.
How immigrants have brought diverse traditions to keep their ancestors and dead loved ones close.
The tiny mammals are essential to human comfort; without them, we wouldn’t have things like avocados, chocolate, and tequila.
The Alliance for Boys and Men of Color’s Healing Together Campaign aims to end intimate partner violence by advocating for policy changes—and seeking healing for both survivors and the people who harm them.
One million women and girls around the world offered answers. Now their responses are influencing reproductive health care policy.
Keeping communities safe against hateful rhetoric will require a bold, expansive vision.
Thanks to a union of land cooperatives, people in Puebla have food sovereignty and education in Nahuatl instead of mega-projects and a Walmart.
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