Water poverty continues to grow in the US
It’s an issue that just might affect people near you, as millions have experienced the repercussions.
Stop Shopping, Start Living
REI is doing its part to preserve the spirit of Thanksgiving. Let's follow their lead - stop shopping and start living.
Revisiting Orwell’s ‘1984’ in Trump’s America
The new regime evokes past totalitarian states, both historical and fictional.
Living in an age of desire and anxiety
What is causing this epidemic?
Arizona teacher who spent $2,000 of her $31,000 salary on school supplies speaks out...
Zoe Hyde: "I had to get markers, crayons, pencils, tissues. All those supplies that you think are part of the education environment, I had to buy myself."
Is the US legal system at war with its people?
Incarcerations, brutality, and torture are common in the U.S. Activists claim that this amounts to a war waged against racially marginalized, poor, and working-class people.
Why the abortion rights movement needs to get more personal
As a queer kid, I struggled to understand what choice means. Now, as a parent, I see it as central to ensuring fundamental freedoms for all of us.
Special report: In the streets with the New Poor People’s Campaign against racism and...
Demonstrators descended on Washington Monday in the latest protest staged by the new Poor People’s Campaign, which organizers say is the most expansive wave...
After coal, a small Kentucky town builds a healthier, more creative economy
A complex network of local organizations helps neighbors support one another as they rebound from a dying industry.
Social Security official: Married working mothers hurt society, condoms rob women of “remarkable chemicals”...
Robert W. Patterson also suggested that homosexuality is a mental disorder and sexual orientation can be forcibly changed.