Remembering Rev. Richard Deats, a life-long peace movement leader and influential teacher of nonviolence
A prolific writer and speaker, Rev. Deats strengthened grassroots movements by leading nonviolent action trainings in conflict zones around the world.
How this country fails its most vulnerable
A field guide to our threadbare social safety net...
Red Earth Farms is proof that intentional communities can succeed
Ninety percent of all communes dissolve early on. How has this Missouri collective been making it work since 2005?
Setting the historical record straight for the critics of the New York Times project...
Four hundred years after the event, the New York Times has published a special project focusing on the first Africans arriving in 1619...
Maine becomes latest state to ditch Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
There has been a growing movement to change the name of Columbus Day, which has been a federal holiday since 1934.
How broadcast networks covered climate change in 2016
The networks failed to devote significant coverage to climate-related policies, but they still found the time to uncritically air climate denial.
In Memphis, an attack on both immigrant rights and press freedom
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day – jailed journalists around the globe should be free to do their work, outside the prison walls that confine them today.
The data center backlash that’s uniting America
The passage of New York's statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing—and winning—in both blue and red parts of the country.
Comfortably numb
Factoring out those out there who are in lots of pain from injury or illness, what of the overwhelming majority who are not in that group and are hooked on opioids?
People magazine pivots from sexual assault allegations, publishes ‘glam’ cover on Trump’s victory
Change has come to America (again).