For Young Professionals, Rural Towns Are Doing What Cities Can’t
Low housing prices, good school systems, and friendly neighbors make small-town living an appealing option for young people—but is it for everybody?
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How a University and a Tribe Are Teaming Up to Revive a Lost Language
At Miami University in Ohio, the Myaamia Center is revitalizing culture and building racial equity. The project was decades in the making.
Nature Is Medicine—Even in a Prison Cell
The “Moss-in-Prison” project helped me bring my love for trees and forest to men and women in the deepest windowless reaches of the prison system.
“What Took So Long?”: Coming Out When You’re Well Into Adulthood
A new memoir explores why it’s OK to be uncertain about your identity at any age.
How Restorative Justice Can Work to Keep Students of Color in School
A recent federal report shows boys, black students, and students with disabilities get kicked out of school at higher rates than their peers.
The New Lynching Memorial Will Tell the Stories of Women Victims, Too
The historical narrative of lynching has often left out women and children, but the reality was much more complex.
Tourists, Beware: Trump Administration Wants Your Social Media Handles Before You Travel
Such scrutiny will affect people coming to the U.S. for work, for business, for tourism, or simply to visit family.
Why Misunderstanding Identity Politics Undermines Intersectionality—and Goals of a Just Society
A white patriarchal system should not define who ideal citizens are.
When Robots Take Our Jobs, Platform Cooperatives Are a Solution
This thriving new sector is a critical step toward a fair and vibrant economic future.
Native Language Schools Are Taking Back Education
More than a century ago, the last fluent speakers of Wôpanâak passed away. Now this school is working to revive the language.
To Decolonize Our Minds, Start With Words
Where is the clear image of a decolonized society we are to emulate? There isn’t one. Yet if we are to free ourselves, we need practical steps.
A Year Later, Fewer Deportations in Cities That Adopted “Welcoming” Policies
Where local governments collaborate with ICE, deportations have increased more than 75 percent. New Mexico shows a different way.
Dear White Feminists, We Can Do Better
Step one: Please stop arguing with people of color about what is or isn’t racist.
Taking MLK’s Message Global
The civil rights icon saw economic issues to be intertwined with racial justice. Today’s globalized economy makes justice that much harder to achieve.
Honoring the Radical Evolution of Martin Luther King Jr.
How the civil rights icon changed from a hopeful reformer to a radical critic.
Mothers Dying After Childbirth Is a Medical Issue—But Cultural, Too
Even as the U.S. rate of infant mortality has decreased, the rate of maternal mortality has increased. Here’s what male-dominated medicine has to do with it.
I Told My Sons the Truth About Gun Violence
Guns are to little boys what sex is to teens. If I wasn’t teaching my children about it, you could bet some other kid on the school bus was.
5 Indigenous Women Asserting the Modern Matriarchy
They’re reclaiming the tradition of female leadership and turning the old, white, male-dominated perspective of history on its head.
What’s Wrong With Saying Stephen Hawking Is “Finally Free”
Our disabilities are not our bodies. Our disabilities are a society based on capitalist assumptions that greatness confers meaning in one’s life.
An Illustrated Essay: Why I Love the Real Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The spirit and sass of the Parkland school’s namesake live on in the million young anti-violence activists who have risen up since the shooting.
Can Not Shaving My Legs Be a Revolutionary Act Against the Patriarchy?
Baby steps, as frustrating as they may be, are sometimes necessary for making important gains on the path to social justice.
The World Is a Miraculous Mess, and It’s Going to Be All Right
In her latest book, author adrienne maree brown envisions a world of abundant justice, abundant attention, and abundant liberation.
#DeleteFacebook? Not in Indian Country
The social network has done more for bolstering the modern Indigenous rights agenda than perhaps any other platform of our time.
Two-Thirds of Americans Live in the “Constitution-Free Zone”
Recent Greyhound bus raids have revealed an obscure law that gives Border Patrol authority 100 miles inside borders, across the entire perimeter of the country.
How Facebook’s Data Has Been Turned Against Its Users—and Democracy
The company does more than just sell your data. It has put modern democracy at stake.
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