While young and non-White people are perceived as more dangerous, middle-aged White people have the highest rates of gun ownership and gun deaths.
The Trump/Republican tax cut proposal is an opportunity to discuss how to redistribute wealth and power.
Electric rickshaws have become an economic and environmental lifeline for both drivers and passengers.
With the highest percentage of teens who identify as transgender, the state is emerging as a national leader when it comes to protecting LGBTQ rights at the local level.
Seattle chef will soon open a crowd-funded restaurant and arts co-op to honor the city’s arts history and unite its residents.
Like other mass shooters before him, Stephen Paddock has the benefit of White privilege even in the most vicious of circumstances.
This isn’t the first time the world of professional sports has entered the fight for civil rights and racial justice.
No, nice guys don’t always finish last.
The camps are gone now, but the awakening to protect the water, land, and tribal sovereignty continues.
Royalties for “We Shall Overcome” used to go to building the power of African Americans and other marginalized people. Not anymore.
Despite all the money in politics, the future of cleaner energy is in the hands of local communities.
To cut down on disease, we should make it a top nonpartisan priority to end our nation’s nutrition crisis.
From seed banks to free food pantries, the little library movement is taking off in neighborhoods across the country.
New series shows “the reality of the problem but also the joy, humor, and humanity that we’re trying to fight for in the first place.”
The Tucson, Arizona, food bank isn’t just giving away packaged foods. It’s growing healthy food—and teaching people how.
“The original sin is the doctrine, ideology, myth, lie, and social construct of racial difference and superiority.”
More than 70 years after hiding in a Berlin cellar, I’m faced once again with neo-Nazis spewing and spreading their hate and beliefs around white supremacy.
One of the Affordable Care Act’s fatal flaws enables Republican sabotage. But to lay the groundwork for change, progressives will have to resist powerful senior lobbies.
Here are 10 ways to talk about white privilege on social media without annoying people of color.
Across most Caribbean islands, hazard exposure is about the same, but research shows that poverty and social inequality drastically magnify the severity of disasters.
Don’t get distracted by income, author Chuck Collins says. It’s power and hidden wealth driving inequality.
For starters, it’s way cheaper.
Even Trump supporters agree we can learn something from the country’s universal, low-cost health care system. It’s that good.
During the national anthem of their opening game, the Cleveland Browns locked arms with law enforcement and emergency workers.
South Dakota’s Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribal members would rather share their food than sell it. But that gets in the way of building a local cash economy.
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