What can we do to help men like Aaron Alexis, the Navy Yard shooter, find another way to deal with their trauma? The story of Michael Hill suggests that kindness is part of the answer.
The future of corporate responsibility means hearing firsthand from factory workers about their conditions.
The controversial Law of Parties expands the guilt for murder to include accomplices and those who knew the crime was going to occur.
At events known as "Stand Downs," which take place in more than 200 cities and towns across the United States, vets from all walks of life gather to support one another.
Now that the encampments are gone, what do we have to show for our movement? As it turns out, quite a bit.
Author Rebecca Solnit brings you back to the encampments of Occupy, and to the months that forged new friendships, changed the horizons of possibility, and terrified elites.
We think of gold as a sign of prosperity, but the farmers and communities most affected by mining just want their rivers and land back.
When about 97 percent of India's vultures died due to eating carcasses that contained a drug called diclofenac, it caused a boom in the feral dog population. The resulting rabies epidemic cost India billions of dollars between 1993 and 2006.
Guerrilla grafting, crop mobs, and other ways to make the fruits of your labor go further.
The oil giant reputation it becoming notorious as shareholders, mayors, and indigenous people criticize its actions.
In Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other cases, the people protested and got war anyway. Why鈥攁t least, so far鈥攈as the story played out differently with Syria?
To transform economically and socially depressed areas into healthy, vibrant communities, we have to focus on their strengths and trust residents to solve their own problems.
Training farms known as incubators are helping immigrants and others get into farming. But Congressional wrangling over the Farm Bill has put their future in question.
A series of actions that took place this summer helped to shift the climate movement's center of gravity.
National media accounts of Detroit's bankruptcy miss the growing industries, strong communities, and policy changes laying the foundation's for the city's recovery.
Many of the legal and diplomatic processes that led to peace in other times of conflict haven't even been tried yet in Syria.
From sharing to repairing, the inspiration you need to lighten your load.
Living a happy life in love is the most important sexual education we can give our kids.
For a more sustainable start to the school year, just follow the Seattle-based rapper to that thrift store down the road.
Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, have learned that climate change endangers Ethiopia's coffee crops. Here's what they're doing to make sure the plants will survive.
Remember the last time we were told military strikes were needed because a Middle Eastern despot had used weapons of mass destruction?
I've respectfully informed my alma mater that, until it divests its holdings in the fossil fuel industry鈥攃oal, oil, tar sands, and fracked natural gas鈥擨 will not donate another cent.
A Montana-based nonprofit is moving to preserve 3.5 million acres of the Great Plains.
We all know our stuff doesn't grow on store shelves. Here's how we can rehumanize our relationship with our things鈥攁nd the people who make them.
Factory owners in the United States say that the Trans-Pacific Partnership鈥攚hich is being negotiated this week in Brunei鈥攚ill force them to lay off workers. Yet opponents in Washington are few and far between.
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