This was the first time most Americans saw an embalmed body, and it changed how we mourn the dead.
In this small town, the stage has become a venue to educate political leaders on transgender issues.
After Trump’s victory over Clinton, women realized how much the country needs them in politics.
A voice and the power to solve problems will make progressive young people see their future in conservative and economically struggling Central Appalachia.
In New Mexico and Colorado, the “acequia” is more than just democratic water distribution—it is at the center of Southwest culture.
After nine months of misogynistic language from doctors and nurses, it’s easy to forget that you’re the decision-maker about your own body.
Marriage research shows how strong relationships survive (even in these hard times).
Sexual abuse is not just a “women’s issue,” and we need to stop treating it as one.
More compassionate drug policy reforms in California have resulted in a drug death rate 40 percent below the national average.
These alternative burial methods give a purpose to your remains.
As a self-identified feminist man who has survived abuse, I wonder how and if I should participate in the conversation.
Are you going to eat that? Because the food industrial complex is the stuff of nightmares.
Meet the social media stars fighting fatphobia.
The effort to restore prairie ecosystems in Washington state before they disappear.
Communities are scrambling to save lives and get people into rehabilitation, but it wasn’t always that way.
In some places in this country, it’s easier to talk about climate change if you avoid the words “climate change.” Melting ice caps and mass migrations are distant and abstract.
The ongoing discourse over racial injustice in my adopted country has had me thinking of my own upbringing in India.
And she has a plan to do it.
What it looks like to pay for the unearned advantages my whiteness has afforded me.
Urban planning has historically perpetuated inequality and injustice. But this city may have found a solution.
Texas. Florida. Puerto Rico. California. The growing climate disaster toll ought to raise questions about where humans can and should live.
Activists who come to command without listening to those they’re ostensibly helping produce a devastation that makes the project of systemic oppression that much easier.
Understanding the history of the world and our centuries-long drive toward cheapness.
“The Standing Rock I knew was not a mystical place with a uniform perspective. It was a complex place—an experiment in love, hope, courage, and solidarity.”
“Indigenous women ... often are the ones to call out injustice when they see it immediately. We saw that at Standing Rock.”
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