SHARE        Sunday, January 22, 2023
Beyond the Binary: Retelling the Dine' Creation Story "Along with the power of creation, we were given the power to choose."

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Can We Still Save U.S. Democracy? Voting rights reform has died an ignoble death in Congress. The way forward isn't clear or inspiring, but at least we still have one.

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Does the Supreme Court's Power Pose a Threat to Its Legitimacy? A court seen as becoming increasingly politicized in ways unpopular to the majority of Americans risks decades of reputational damage. The modern Supreme Court is one of the most powerful tribunals in the world and across history. That immense power has arguably made the court a leading player in enacting policy in the U.S. It may also cause the loss of the court's legitimacy

SHARE        Tuesday, September 13, 2016
The Big Difference at Standing Rock Is Native Leadership All Around This fight is about the water. And because the messaging is that water is life, so many people can connect with that. Whether you're native or non-Native, whether you're from Chicago or Detroit or New Orleans or up in the Bakken, we all understand the importance of protecting the water. That brings us together.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 11, 2016
Obama Pipeline Plot Twist Is Not a Victory -- And Could Erase the Struggle What's happening with Standing Rock? It's the same old con game. Federal authorities are going to give a very serious matter very serious consideration, and then...we'll see. The formula couldn't be clearer. Obama will be celebrated as having "stopped a pipeline" when the project has, at best, been paused. By erasing an ongoing struggle, you're helping to build a pipeline.

SHARE        Sunday, November 22, 2015
7 Paths to Development That Bring Neighborhoods Wealth, Not Gentrification The plan to build better, more connected, flourishing communities is here--and it won't require putting a Starbucks on every block.

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No Apologies: Meet the Guy Who Got Bernie Sanders' Interrupters on the Stage n his first interview since last weekend's action in Seattle, activist Amir Islam talks about why every presidential candidate should be ready to talk black issues.

(12 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 3, 2015
Baltimoreans Celebrate Charging of Officers--But Say It's Just First Step Cheers erupted on the steps of the War Memorial building in Baltimore when State Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced that the six police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray will have charges brought against them. Yet the situation on the streets remained tense

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 9, 2014
6 Ways to Bring More Empathy to the Internet We asked psychologists, user experience designers, and writers what web users could to do to promote more empathic interaction in online places. Here's what they said.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 6, 2014
Gar Alperovitz on Why the New Economy Movement Needs to Think Big His new book, "What Then Must We Do?" imagines how a new economic system might actually emerge, from the bottom up, in the next few decades.

(6 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Glenn Greenwald on Government Snooping: Why It's Dangerous and What We Can Do About It U.S. tech companies like Facebook and Google and Microsoft and Cisco and Yahoo are genuinely petrified about the effect that this surveillance will have on their future. Why would people around the world want to use U.S. tech companies if they know that those companies will turn their data over to the NSA? It can be paralyzing. It can engender paranoia. It can make you refrain from doing things that you ought to do.

(8 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 18, 2014
When This Teacher's Ethnic Studies Classes Were Banned, His Students Took the District to Court--and Won Curtis Acosta's classes in Mexican American Studies gave kids pride in their heritage--until the Arizona Legislature canceled them. That's when his students became activists, and some real-life lessons began.

SHARE        Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Can We Keep the Internet Free? The struggle to save the world's greatest communication network.

SHARE        Thursday, March 6, 2014
Remembering Chokwe Lumumba-- Revolutionary and Mississippi Mayor Can you be a revolutionary and a mayor? Chokwe Lumumba—who spent eight months as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, before he died last Tuesday—did his best to be both.

SHARE        Saturday, March 1, 2014
West Virginians Raise Alarm as Research Links Coal Mining to Cancer, Birth Defects A study that compared two rural West Virginia communities, one with mining and one without, found that self-reported cancer rates were twice as high in the mining areas. In areas with mountaintop removal (or surface mining), rates of lung, bladder, kidney, and colon cancer, along with leukemia, are all higher than in non-mining areas.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 4, 2014
Abolish the Aisle: Would Divided Legislators Work Together If They Had to Sit in Alphabetical Order? Marco Rubio would be next to Bernie Sanders, and Paul Ryan would rub elbows with Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan. If we closed the personal gap, maybe we could close the political one.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 23, 2013
The Movement to Live More Simply Is Older Than You Think What might history teach us about living more simple, less consumerist lifestyles?

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 30, 2013
How I Got My Husband to Take Care of His Body (Even Though He Just Wants to Take Care of Me) If it takes being a "controlling wife" to make my husband value his own health over his love for his family, I'm going to do it.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, November 26, 2013
The Economy of Smallness: Making Economic Exchange a Loving Human Interaction Philadelphia restauranteur and local economies movement leader Judy Wicks on making good and doing good.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 24, 2013
Two Years After the Eviction of OWS, Here's 5 People Keeping the Movement Alive 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.