Thursday, November 5, 2026

Let’s agree to stop ‘keeping the peace’ this holiday season

As we approach the holidays, here are eight tips for discussing difficult topics with family that center connection over conflict.

How a cooperative run by the formerly incarcerated is reshaping Chicago’s food industry

Megacorporations tend to dominate food contracting with schools and other large facilities in America. In Chicago, Black formerly incarcerated people are prepping locally sourced meals for schools, nursing homes and transitional housing facilities.
A Renaissance fresco of the biblical flood with the ark afloat

‘My religion’s better than yours’ – so there!

To fix all truths on realms invisible Strikes skeptics as inadmissible.

How collectives are empowering people to understand the tricky financial side of life

Removing the taboo around talking about money, two collectives are helping people work toward securing their financial well-being.

Mass shootings in the US have risen sharply in 2020—why?

There have been 578 mass shootings so far this year, this is already significantly above the 417 mass shootings recorded in the whole of 2019.

The Declaration of Independence wasn’t really complaining about King George, and 5 other surprising...

In celebration of the United States’ 245th birthday, Holton offers six surprising facts about the nation’s founding document – including that it failed to achieve its most immediate goal and that its meaning has changed from the founding to today.

Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’...

Can government programs that provide financial support to parents offset the motherhood penalty in earnings?

Indigenous peoples reclaim the National Bison Range

“We are such a place-based people. To have this land back, to be in control of it, is a fresh, new hope.”

Trump can’t blockade love: Why I’m going to Cuba

And there are millions around the world who love the Cuban people—a people who have fought capitalism, imperialism, Apartheid, and Zionism. A people who are always the first to offer aid and solidarity.

Scientists prove extensive Viking silver trade with Abbasid Empire from British silver hoard

The team can now date the influx of silver coinage into Viking realms from the Muslim empires of the Middle East much earlier than had previously been thought.