2020 candidates address historical trauma, missing Indigenous women & more at Native American forum
Exploring the candidates’ proposals to tackle issues affecting the Native American community, including the chronic murder and disappearance of Native American girls and women, land sovereignty, and generational trauma caused by colonialism.
Five years after Sandy: The long road home
If Sandy taught us we can rebuild, it also taught us that we must find a better way.
The Gilded Age of animal advocacy: A transformative era for America’s moral compass
Nineteenth-century activists revolutionized attitudes toward nonhuman animals amid cultural, economic, and moral shifts in a rapidly changing nation.
Journalist Launches Online Archive to Document Diversity of Rural India
While Sainath is known for his forceful critiques of people in power and the inequality built into contemporary economics and politics, he aims to show the dignity of ordinary people in the face of injustice in "People’s Archive of Rural India."
Global food crops also face Earth’s sixth great mass extinction
We need to get away from a focus on ‘feeding the world’ and move toward ‘nourishing the world.’
Exploring the high rates of social violence in the Americas
For decades, the Americas have been the most violent part of the world outside active war zones. Many factors contribute to this, but long-term solutions remain difficult to achieve.
Alex Acosta enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes. Now he’s gutting funding for trafficking victims
During a press conference Wednesday, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta dismissed calls for his resignation and defended the 2008 plea deal given to...
Why community efforts should live at the forefront of activism
When community members work together on something they believe strongly in, they do so with strength and mutual care that have positive effects on everyone involved.
10 amazing social movement struggles in 2017 that give us reason to hope
Here are ten stories showing that people power works.
Justice Department inspector general to investigate DEA program linked to massacres in Mexico
The inquiry stems from stories by ProPublica that showed the DEA’s vetted unit in the country has had a history of leaking sensitive information to drug traffickers.