Winter 2021
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What the Rest of the World Knows
In Depth
Explore SectionFrom the Editors
Introduction: What the Rest of the World Knows
It was a bitter reality to witness residents in this country having to fend for themselves against the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions have lost their jobs and homes. Hundreds of thousands have lost their lives.
The pandemic has brought home some undeniable truths about the way our country is run, and specifically, how it stacks up against the rest of the world.
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Where Incarceration Isn鈥檛 the Answer
Frustrations with the U.S. prison system have prompted a global search for alternatives. Yet the solution might not be as simple as 鈥渂e like Scandinavia.鈥�
Mark P. Fancher
Just the Facts
The 25% Tipping Point
New research reveals how to make social change.
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz
Photo Essay | Signs of Your Identity
A visual exploration of the lasting harm of Canada鈥檚 residential schools on the Indigenous population.
Daniella Zalcman
A Way Out of a Dark Past
Can Canada鈥檚 Truth and Reconciliation efforts help the U.S. with its own reckoning?
Stacey McKenna
How Norway Built an Economy That Puts People First
The national ethos of economic equity was decades in the making.
Isabella Breda
11 Better Ideas for a Country in Need of Social Change
Even nations with long histories of inequality and violence carry lessons for how to move toward what might be called a more perfect union.
Sunnivie Brydum
A Reset for Unprecedented Times
Buen Vivir is both a philosophy and a lived practice that puts Earth at the center of 鈥渢he Good Life.鈥�
Natasha Chassagne
Solutions We Love
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Indigenous Foodways
Good Medicine: A Powerful Punch
Both Western and traditional medicine agree, cranberries are more than just tart and tasty.
Valerie Segrest
4 Places
Workers Flex for Social Justice
Never underestimate the power of direct action.
Chris Winters
People We Love
Hurricane Relief Through Mutual Aid
Three groups using mutual aid as a tool for natural disaster response.
Isabella Garcia
Culture Shift
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Books+Film+Music
Can We Live Up to James Baldwin鈥檚 Hope for a Multiracial Democracy?
To make these after times different from the ones Baldwin lived through, White people need to reimagine their Whiteness and their wokeness and how they perform both.
Ruth Terry
Books+Film+Music
Edible City
Moving away from grass lawns demands the extensive transformation of our relationship not only with our cities but also with nature.
Charles Mudede
Books+Film+Music
Rights and Justice: Disability Advocates Blazing Trails
We need to build on past achievements, expand our ideas of the possible, and move toward a shared vision of the future鈥攚ith disabled people at the forefront of the push toward justice.
Luticha Andr茅 Doucette
