What Small Farms Need to Compete With Corporate Food
Most small farms have to follow the same rules as big corporate ones. In Maine, flexible food ordinances have increased the number of small farmers.
Social Justice
Happiness Inequality Is a Better Measure of Well-Being Than Income Inequality
Researchers say happiness reveals more about human welfare than standard indicators like wealth, education, health, or good government.
A Sanders-Clinton Combined Strategy Could Boost Native Americans鈥� Quality of Life
To meet multifaceted needs in Indian Country, Sanders and Clinton should combine their economic proposals.
National Parks Are Used Mostly By Older White People. Here鈥檚 Why That Needs to Change
With its history of segregation, the Park Service has had a rocky relationship with race. But if youth of color don鈥檛 connect with the outdoors, who will be its future stewards?
In Photos: The Indigenous Protectors of the World鈥檚 Most Sacred Places
All around the world, sites sacred to indigenous people are besieged by mining, tourism, and other threats. Meet the groups safeguarding and restoring them.
Want to Hire a Worker-Owned Co-op? There鈥檚 an App for That
Coopify wants to bring a sense of community to the app-based booking world by connecting worker-owned cooperatives and other low-income task workers directly with consumers.
Progressive Politics Don鈥檛 Feel So Inclusive When You鈥檙e Latino
Failing to understand the interests of 55 million Latinos has been one of the greatest political failures of our time. Latinos want to be heard on more than just immigration issues.
What鈥檚 It Like to Be the New Kid and a Refugee?
Small town and suburban public schools become welcome centers as more immigrants are moving outside major metropolitan areas.
How to Talk With Your Kids about Donald Trump
The success of Trump鈥檚 candidacy isn鈥檛 just a political problem. It鈥檚 also a psychological and cultural one that needs to be addressed by parents.
Politics on the Dance Floor: Reclaiming Queer and Black Roots in Electronic Dance Music
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.
Finally, the U.S. Steps Closer to Racial Healing With a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission
South Africa used truth and reconciliation to address its racist history. Now these organizers think it's time for the United States to do the same.
What I Learned From My March With Democracy Spring
The political march is a tool for social transformation in itself. This one gave me a taste of the connected, empowered society I鈥檓 working to create.
How to Educate a Generation of Syrian Refugees? Makeshift Classrooms and the Teacher Next Door
In response to overcrowded public schools in countries neighboring Syria, caravan schools provide refugees with free education to keep them from falling behind.
In a Surprise Win for Democracy Over Corporate Power, GMO Labeling Has Arrived
Those predicting an easy Senate defeat for mandatory labeling saw corporations fold one by one in the face of a strong food movement.
As the EU Stalls on Refugees, Volunteers Provide a Taste of Home
For people in the overcrowded refugee camps of Idomeni, Greece, local volunteers and students work to make life more normal for displaced families.
Proud of Our Pidgin: The Newest Language in the U.S. Census
When Hawaiian Pidgin Creole joined an official list of 350 languages spoken in U.S. homes, it lifted up communities throughout Hawai鈥榠 and their rich immigrant history.
1 in 11 U.S. Gun Deaths Is at the Hands of Police. How Do We Stop the Killing?
The documentary film 鈥淧eace Officer鈥� explains the connection between the war on drugs and the militarization of police, and what it will take to reduce police violence in America.
Pay Attention! How Being Less Distracted Will Make You Happy
Researchers say we鈥檙e distracted 47 percent of our lives. Increasing our focus could help us鈥攁nd the people around us鈥攆eel happier.
Why Fixing Climate Change Is Women鈥檚 Work
Natural resource scarcity and unpredictable weather affect women first, yet they鈥檙e often the last to be heard on how to combat it. That鈥檚 slowly changing.
5 Japanese-American Women Activists Left Out of U.S. History Books
A herstory lesson about five women whose World War II internment inspired them to action.
69 Hired, Thousands to Go: Under Pressure, Berkeley Takes First Steps to End UC Labor Abuses
Boycotts and sit-ins force UC Berkeley to hire outsourced custodians and parking lot attendants, giving them higher wages and better benefits.
New Film About Sex Trafficking Celebrates the Resilience of Children
Filmmakers hope 鈥淪old,鈥� based on the bestselling young adult novel, will inspire empathy and action among young viewers.
Forget Nutraloaf鈥擯risoners Are Growing Their Own Food
From New York to California, prison gardening programs serve as cost-effective food sources and provide inmates with better nutrition.
5 Things Science Says Will Make You Happier
Happy people are healthier, make more money, and live longer. Thankfully researchers say it鈥檚 something we can cultivate with practice. Here鈥檚 how.
Kids Turn Baltimore鈥檚 Uprising Into Art
After Freddie Gray鈥檚 death, Baltimore photographer Devin Allen鈥檚 photo landed on the cover of Time Magazine. Today he鈥檚 teaching local youth how to use cameras to tell their own stories.
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