Even when discontent is near-universal and the desire for change is palpable, the way forward is not always clear.

Twelve years ago, John Perkins published his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, and it rapidly rose up The New York Times’ best-seller list. In it, Perkins describes his career convincing heads ...

Indigenous environmental movements in North America are among the oldest and most provocative—from the Dish With One Spoon Treaty between Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples to the Mni Wiconi ...

From 100 feet in th­­e air, the parcel at 500 N. Waller Ave. in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago looks like the center of a donut. Surrounded by two churches, a fire station, a senior home, a town ...

In this issue we explore the history of plastic, its global impacts, and some of the most inspiring solutions we’ve come across.

Year after year, the same foldable table is propped up near the entrance of a high school gym. People with the same uniform but different faces, all eager to tell you about a new “opportunity,” will ...

is co-Director of Advocacy and Mobilization at the Center for Popular Democracy. She’s held various organizing and campaign roles over the past 15 years, including helping to organize the Kavanaugh ...

is a Senior Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre focusing on refugee livelihoods, self-reliance, and local governance, and a Junior Research Fellow in Social Sciences at Wadham College, ...

Multimedia stories on local solutionaries from our YES! Solutions Pilot Project. In late fall 2019, nine schools were selected to pilot the YES! Solutions Project. The project shifts students from ...

As the multibillion-dollar electronic music industry grows, artists and organizers are taking back the spaces and sounds of the marginalized people who started the genre. If Congress hasn't taken ...

Childhood ends when a black child is criminalized.

After the civil rights movement, White people in the U.S. were still widely uncommitted to systemic solutions and policies to support racial equality. Although attitudes have shifted since, it’s not ...