The Sunrise generation leads the way on climate action
In the meantime, with the encouragement of leaders like AOC, what is arguably the largest youth movement since the 1960s is taking shape to finally put the climate crisis front and center in U.S. politics.
From farm to table, women in the US food system are speaking up about...
The U.S. food sector depends heavily on immigrant labor and is also the lowest-paid and most exploited one in the nation.
A new world is dawning, and the US will no longer lead it
We are no longer the “indispensable” nation.
Indigenous culture reasserts women’s power through dance
The colonial legacy of patriarchy undergirds a long, entrenched history of abuse of Native women.
To working stiff Trump supporters
Perhaps we need some of that now. That is not insurrection or revolution. Let us call it EVOLUTION.
Indian Country moves to secure voting rights
Activists among tribes want to rally the Native vote. Because when they show up to the polls, they’ve shown significant political power.
Indigenous protectors are defending the Amazon and ‘paying with their lives’
Human rights groups warned in an open letter that the Amazon’s last uncontacted indigenous people face “genocide,” amid raging fires and mounting incursions into their territories.
Merry Christmas: Right-wingers, the Red Pope and Jesus
Rationality doesn't seem to be included in the liturgy of right-wingers' political church.
ALEC fails to denounce dangerous and racist views of its leaders and members
ALEC has remained conspicuously silent about the dangerous and racist statements and ties of its legislative leaders.
Civil Rights: From Sundance, to Selma, to South Carolina
In 1915 one of the most nakedly racist films was screened in the White House. One hundred years later a very different film, directed by an African-American woman, was screened there. Change happens, slowly, but it happens. Could the birth of a new nation be at hand?








