A People’s Prosperity
Capitalism’s endless economic growth prioritizes the individual over community and creates extreme inequality. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Issues
Grappling With Growth
If the idea of growth itself is neutral, what can we build from the ashes of our individual lives and losses that strengthens the whole?
Terra Affirma: Life Finds A Way—If We Let It
Wolves helped make many beloved places in the West lush.
Landless Workers Fight for Fair Food
Brazil’s MST has organized the largest social movement in Latin America.
Free Your Mind(set)
To reject the growth mindset, we must divorce ourselves from careerism.
Keeping Kids With Kin
Kinship care saves children from state intervention that may alter their future outcomes.
The Growing Pains of a Changing Nation
Our country is multiracial but our democracy isn’t—yet.
Holding Fast to Kelp
This humble seaweed nourishes and teaches us to move with life’s currents.
Surviving Birth
Birth workers are helping Black parents navigate overlapping crises.
Stop Planting Trees
Long touted as an environmental panacea, mass tree planting can actually do more harm than good.
Black Growing Traditions
Black farmers are reasserting themselves in food cultivation and building on the practices of earlier generations.
Meatless Abundance: The Joy of Plant-Based Eating
Alicia Kennedy’s new book invites readers to see the ecological and culinary possibilities of removing meat from the center of their plates.
The Risky Rise of AI
Who controls the reins of artificial intelligence will determine whether it serves us all or the wealthy few.
The Heavy Weight of Body Image
From a young age, boys are expected to bulk up at the expense of their emotional and mental health.
Contributors
Dani McClain reports on race, parenting, and reproductive health. Her writing has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, TIME, The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, and Colorlines. Her work has
Outgrowing the Growth Imperative
Dear Reader, I was an economics major in college. When I was taught that economies had to keep growing or face a spiraling collapse, I had questions. Under capitalism, economic
Why I Give
Ken Lebensold of Deep Gap, North Carolina, is an avid YES! Magazine reader who has been supporting YES! since 2002. How did you discover YES!?While I lived in Oakland, California,
Justice at the Tap
For Jackson, Flint, and the Navajo Nation, clean water shouldn’t be a pipe dream.
What Thirst Tells Us
Our “Thirst” issue spotlights a fundamental truth: We all have needs.
¡Salud!
Watering holes nourish our bodies, our minds, and our communities.
We Keep Us Safe: Imagining a Police-Free World
Communities with infrastructure to support the development of whole, healthy people won’t need police.
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