Caring is a tricky word for many women, as it brims with gendered expectations of labor, open availability, and mental load.
Urban waterways have many benefits—but they’re not accessible to all communities.
Frontline communities from California to Puerto Rico lead the fight for energy democracy.
This four-part reported series explores the ways that individuals, movements, and communities are shifting to a more holistic approach to prosperity.
Trump is not the origin of America’s violent racial history, but he is its gleeful instigator.
Many people think they know the history of Labor Day in the U.S., but the story is more complicated than they realize.
The Fourteenth Amendment automatically bars anyone taking part in or supporting an insurrection from public office.
The takeover only lasted a few minutes. However, its impact was felt as far away as Europe.
Capitalism’s endless economic growth prioritizes the individual over community and creates extreme inequality. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
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?
Wolves helped make many beloved places in the West lush.
Brazil’s MST has organized the largest social movement in Latin America.
To reject the growth mindset, we must divorce ourselves from careerism.
Kinship care saves children from state intervention that may alter their future outcomes.
Our country is multiracial but our democracy isn’t—yet.
This humble seaweed nourishes and teaches us to move with life’s currents.
Birth workers are helping Black parents navigate overlapping crises.
Long touted as an environmental panacea, mass tree planting can actually do more harm than good.
Black farmers are reasserting themselves in food cultivation and building on the practices of earlier generations.
Alicia Kennedy’s new book invites readers to see the ecological and culinary possibilities of removing meat from the center of their plates.
Who controls the reins of artificial intelligence will determine whether it serves us all or the wealthy few.
From a young age, boys are expected to bulk up at the expense of their emotional and mental health.
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