Voices for Change

Lands managed by Afro-descendant peoples in the Amazon experience dramatically lower deforestation and house some of the planet’s richest ecosystems—showing how centuries-old stewardship can guide global conservation.

Rep. Pocan’s letter urges President Obama to “use executive action and take concrete steps” to address the drug cost crisis, and lists three tools that the president can use.

Latino community members in Southern California use the tanda system for mutual financial support.

Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”

No opinion leader any longer commands enough broad-based respect to influence a majority of the public. Circus politics may be fun to watch, but it’s profoundly dangerous for America and the world.

This is not just an abstract dilemma that many households are facing; it is necropolitics in action, the state-sanctioned power to decide who lives and dies.

The environmental crisis and the mishandling of climate change are issues that are going to make the 2020s a decade of transformational change.

Anyone who votes for the Republican ticket out of general frustration or because they thrill to Trump's on-stage antics or mistrust people who seem different from themselves, should reflect on how a Republican victory will affect what really matters to all of us.

Wall Street bought them – and is now leasing them out and driving up rents.

The resistance is real, strong and growing, and that cannot be denied.