Junk food may have captured the American palate, but a few simple ingredients and techniques can win it back.
If Harry Potter were a real person, he鈥檇 fight child labor, voter suppression, and poverty. Here are our favorite ways Harry's fans have taken his values from the page to the real world.
The profits of corporate giants that crash our economy and corrupt our politics deserve your outrage. But the efforts to curb them need your creative energy.
What if we used fantasy not as an escape from our world, but an invitation to look deeper into it? How teenage fans are fighting injustice鈥攊n real life.
It's possible to find hope for action in the new generation's determination and clarity鈥攅ven after 19 years of stalled negotiations.
"I used to ask the question, 'Am I an activist or a writer?' I don't ask that anymore. I am simply a human being engaged."
Live coverage of the United Nations climate talks in Warsaw from Democracy Now!
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Beyond the Affordable Care Act, the film explores how to make a healthier America.
It's time to reclaim the well-being and exuberance that is part of healthy food culture.
If governments fail to listen to mounting protests demanding clean energy, people's movements will put their futures in question.
KarmaTube music video on kindness.
"Anarchists are certain I'm an anarchist because I cut up a favorite tool of the oppressor," artist Mark Wagner says. "Capitalists think I'm a capitalist because I revel in it."
鈥樷€楢 seed sown in the soil makes us one with the Earth. It makes us realize that we are the Earth.鈥�
After a major leak from the agreement's secret text, people are talking about the TPP. What will it mean for the secretive trade deal's future?
Two years ago today, when Occupy Wall Street was evicted from Zuccotti Park, many wondered what was next for the movement. Two years later, we profile five projects that got their starts in the encampments and are still making change today.
Miami Dolphins lineman Jonathan Martin is not the only NFL player to challenge the league's bigotry and misogyny. These five men stand for a new kind of masculinity.
Local lawmakers will vote today on whether to overturn the mayor's veto of a bill to regulate the use of pesticides on the Hawaiian island.
Returning vets often struggle with relationships, housing, PTSD, and more. Dryhootch founders say the best mentors for people returning from our latest wars are other vets who have been through it before.
The devastation in the Philippines reminds us of our responsibility to stop profiting from the wreckage caused by companies whose business plan includes destroying the planet.
Right before the latest round of climate talks began, the massive superstorm killed tens of thousands and displaced millions in the Philippines. What will it take to drive the message home?
Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for 10- to 14-year-olds in rural America, and Native American kids are hit the hardest. After Indian Valley lost its sixth teenager, residents started talking about suicide out in the open鈥攁nd it's working.
Four Stockholm cinemas are adopting a system that rates films on how deeply their female characters are developed鈥攁nd how much they interact. It could radically change the way we see movies.
Can a licensing deal between Sesame Street and the Produce Marketing Association truly improve childhood health? Maybe, but grassroots solutions already exist.
A moving sampling of participants鈥� reflections from the first two days of the Gratitude Challenge.
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