Education | Democratic reforms | Citizens United California Decision Aims to End Aggressive Policing in Schools And it offers a blueprint for reforming other districts that suffer from overpolicing. Mike Males | Feb 14, 2019
Native rights | Sustainable food and farming | Indigenous lands The White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized the Rights of Wild Rice Finally, plant species have rights, too. Winona LaDuke | Feb 1, 2019
Mental health | Mindfulness Why Costa Rica Tops the Happiness Index How a focus on peace is helping this Central American country top the Happy Planet Index. Lisa Gale Garrigues | Jan 31, 2019
Local economies | Wealth and inequality This City Made Access to Food a Right of Citizenship A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: End hunger. Frances Moore Lapp茅 | Jan 29, 2019
5 Ways to Protect the Planet Without Disenfranchising People With Disabilities Despite their vulnerability to climate change, people with disabilities often are omitted from relevant policy making. Megan Wildhood | Jan 24, 2019
Native rights How Native Culture Helped Shape Rock 鈥檔鈥 Roll Native musicians played an oversize role in the history of American music. A documentary to air on PBS sets the record straight. Charles R. Cross | Jan 18, 2019
Wealth and inequality | Jobs Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks And we wouldn鈥檛 even have to tax the rich to pay for it. Ellen Brown | Jan 3, 2019
Wealth and inequality This Radical Plan to Fund the Green New Deal Just Might Work A network of public banks could underwrite the new New Deal in the same way President Franklin Roosevelt financed the original. Ellen Brown | Dec 26, 2018
Climate Why the Migrant Caravan Story Is a Climate Change Story Drought, crop failure, storms, and land disputes pit the rich against the poor, and Central America is ground zero for climate change. Todd Miller | Nov 28, 2018
Local economies | Wealth and inequality | Democratic reforms | Local power Progressives Are Pushing Economic Democracy. Democrats Need to Listen The U.S. doesn鈥檛 have a problem of economic scarcity. The problem is unequal power. Geoff Gilbert | Nov 12, 2018
Democratic reforms | Clean elections | Local power | Citizens United Flipping the House Is Nice, But the Real Power Is Local Record turnout in the midterm elections shows there鈥檚 a strong desire for change. Here鈥檚 where it鈥檚 happening. Chris Winters | Nov 8, 2018
Renewable energy Nuclear Power Will Not Save Us From Climate Change How the IPCC鈥檚 solutions for reversing the Earth鈥檚 warming encourage business as usual. M.V. Ramana, Robert Jensen | Nov 2, 2018
Clean elections | Local power | Citizens United | Democratic reforms The Midterms Are More Than a Vote Against the President Here鈥檚 what鈥檚 on the line. Chris Winters | Oct 23, 2018
Wealth and inequality | Jobs | Consumerism The Big U.S. City Trying to Break with Wall Street In a push to divest public funds from corporate giants, Los Angeles is asking voters to approve a city-owned bank. Ellen Brown | Oct 3, 2018
Immigration Busting the Myth of Immigrant Crime Trump鈥檚 White supporters鈥攏ot immigrants鈥攁re bringing lethal drugs, violence, and crime. Mike Males | Jul 27, 2018
Democratic reforms | Clean elections With Kennedy鈥檚 Vacancy, Only Voting Can Check One-Party Rule Trump will replace the last centrist on the Supreme Court. Now only voter pushback can restore balance to Congress. Chris Winters | Jun 27, 2018
Renewable energy | Pollution When Climate Change Was a Nonpartisan Issue In 1988, global warming became front-page news鈥攁nd 30 years later the U.S. has yet to take meaningful action. Robert Brulle | Jun 19, 2018
Sustainable food and farming Senate鈥檚 Farm Bill Moves Forward鈥擝ut What Is It, Anyway? From food assistance for the poor to subsidies for a corporate food system, the nation鈥檚 next farm bill is taking shape. Shannan Lenke Stoll | Jun 14, 2018
Democratic reforms | Clean elections | Citizens United California鈥檚 Low Turnout Suggests Voters Need a Better Reason to Show Up Still, there are signs of progress that could lead to increased turnout come November, including 1,800 women running for federal and state offices. Chris Winters | Jun 9, 2018
Sustainable food and farming | Pollution Why Fast Fashion Needs to Slow Down The no-waste economy must be applied to fashion, just as it is in the food industry. Kaya Dorey | May 31, 2018
Clean elections | Voter suppression | Local power | Citizens United | Democratic reforms When 16-Year-Olds Vote, We All Benefit A lower voting age rejuvenates democracy across generations. Bill Bystricky | May 23, 2018
Education | Activism The Shooting Statistics Are Clear: It鈥檚 Not Schools That Are Dangerous Schools are the sites of fewer than 3 percent of students鈥 gun homicides; the other 97 percent occur somewhere other than school. Mike Males | May 18, 2018
The Economy Hasn鈥檛 Recovered for Single Women Low-income single women borrowed the most in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crash. And they're still vulnerable. Melanie G. Long | Apr 30, 2018
Today鈥檚 Young Adults Want to Redesign Capitalism. But Into What? The data suggest that today鈥檚 young people are losing faith in capitalism鈥攁nd ready to embrace something much more fair. Douglas L. Kruse, Joseph Blasi | Apr 5, 2018
Reproductive rights | Health care | Women Mothers Dying After Childbirth Is a Medical Issue鈥擝ut Cultural, Too Even as the U.S. rate of infant mortality has decreased, the rate of maternal mortality has increased. Here鈥檚 what male-dominated medicine has to do with it. Erin Sagen | Apr 4, 2018