Hurricane Rescuers and Survivors Use Social 麻豆社事件 to Call for Help
When 911 services were overwhelmed, stranded Houston residents used their Facebook and Instagram accounts to connect with community rescuers.
Social Justice
How Alaska Tribes Solved Their Dental Health Crisis
Dental health therapy takes half the time it takes to train a dentist. And it does what good medicine should: improve public health.
Ignore the Lame Excuses: What 300,000 Escaped Salmon Prove About Factory Fish Farming
Sustainable-food advocates want to love aquaculture鈥攜et it comes with so many risks.
It鈥檚 Not Just the South: Here鈥檚 How Everyone Can Resist White Supremacy
Every region of our country has its history of racial exclusion and white supremacy. Here are 13 ways to right those wrongs.
Tribes Were the First Climate Refugees鈥攁nd the First to Build Resilience Plans
The Swinomish of Washington produced a climate adaptation plan two years before the state. Now it鈥檚 a template for all of Indian Country.
Hurricane Harvey Isn鈥檛 a 鈥淣atural鈥� Disaster. Politics Created the Chaos
Don鈥檛 blame climate change for Houston鈥檚 vulnerability. A hurricane need not become a disaster.
What Happens When the Internet Tries to Silence White Supremacy
Two huge white nationalist sites were recently kicked off the web. But prohibiting hate groups could fuel paranoia鈥攁nd more violence.
Alaska鈥檚 Small Villages Turn Toward Renewables鈥擜nd Don鈥檛 Look Back
Oil companies like to push the narrative that Alaskans want more oil development, but that鈥檚 not true.
鈥淭his Is Our Land鈥�: Indigenous Rights Activists Respond to White Supremacist Rhetoric
At the Trump rally Tuesday, indigenous and Latino rights advocates stood together to protest racial inequality in Arizona鈥檚 justice system. For these groups, facing militarized police is nothing new.
Inside the ACLU: Defending White Supremacists as a Black Attorney
As a constitutional lawyer, I fully support the First Amendment. But as a black person, I鈥檓 conflicted when it comes to defending hate.
Baltimore鈥檚 Push to Solve Its Affordable Housing Crisis With Community Land Trusts
Community groups throughout the city say land trusts could keep families living affordably in a fast-gentrifying city.
For the Love of Earth
Perhaps the most compelling reason to change our ways is that Earth needs our help. In our responsibility to respond, might we unite in common cause?
You鈥檙e Lucky If You鈥檝e Got a Meddling Neighbor or Two. Here鈥檚 Why
Forget minding your own business. Getting engaged leads to great rewards for both ourselves and others.
How to Get Banks Not to Fund Oil Pipelines? Aim High and Keep Showing Up
A few months after temporarily shutting down 13 Chase branches, Seattle climate activists were at it again with a tar sands petition.
Climate Justice Is Racial Justice Is Gender Justice
What is a 鈥渏ust transition,鈥� anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
What a Revived Poor People鈥檚 Campaign Needs to Do in the Trump Era
For the new movement to gain national traction, it will need to draw in poor and working-class Whites.
Austin Police Try to Get Beyond Trans Misgendering and 鈥淒eadnaming鈥�
A few law enforcement agencies have adopted new guidelines to treat trans and gender-nonconforming people more fairly. But it鈥檚 just the first step.
Stop Using Mental Illness to Explain White Supremacy
White supremacy is not an unfortunate stain on an otherwise clean democracy. It鈥檚 terribly, terrifyingly normal.
Clues From History: Why Trump鈥檚 Presidency Is Over
Many state governments over the years have reached exactly this point of racial toxicity鈥攁nd crumbled.
Confederate Statues Have Been Invisible to Most White People
We鈥檝e been living alongside the Confederacy too long, and white people are finally starting to notice.
Locals and Tribes March Together to Oppose Construction of Natural Gas Plant
The construction of the Puget Sound Energy facility is already underway in Washington state, and it has locals worried about the health and safety of their community.
Robert Reich鈥檚 Summer Survival Guide for the Trump Era
10 ways to get your mind off this White House.
Charlottesville Was Not a 鈥淧rotest Turned Violent.鈥� It Was a Planned Race Riot
Isn鈥檛 it time for the media to be honest and call white supremacists the domestic terrorists that they are?
Fight Fascism With a Dance Party
Where fascism aims to instill fear, joy is the perfect resistance.
Why Police Violence Against Women of Color Stays Hidden
Data show more Black men are killed at higher rates than women, but police-misconduct attorney Andrea Ritchie says that doesn鈥檛 tell the whole story.
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