“I no longer believe in the Democratic Party,” says Kylie Sparks, a Los Angeles–based actor, writer, and organizer. Sparks volunteered for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2012 and worked on ...

Since taking office in January 2025, President Donald Trump has launched an all-out assault on the nation’s past. He has cut funding and signed executive orders targeting historical programming at ...

It’s 9:30 a.m. and Juliaticia, a woman dressed in vibrant traditional garments, strolls down a hill in Candelaria, a small village nestled in the remote Guatemalan highlands’ Chimaltenango department.

In the late 1970s, the military regime in Brazil was preparing to return the country to democratic rule. Since 1964, the country had been ruled by an undemocratic military government, and after years ...

Not all bedrock is stone.Sarah Gilman is a writer and illustrator covering the environment, natural history, and science. A contributing editor at Hakai and bioGraphic magazines, her work has also ...

When Renee Lau, a special projects coordinator at the trans-led housing and wellness center Baltimore Safe Haven, transitioned at the age of 63, she lost everything. “My marriage fell apart,” she says ...

The Harassment by Animal Rights Groups Despite the health and cultural benefits garnered by the whale hunt in 1999, the practice was soon stifled once again. Members of animal rights groups, including ...

From the Editors Introduction: A New Social Justice The theme for our 100th issue was inspired by the political earthquake of 2020 and the butterfly model of transformative social justice. Read more ...

In 1992, a Canadian ecologist named William Rees coined the term “ ecological footprint,” a measurement of how much any entity was impacting the planet’s ecology. A decade later, British Petroleum ...

Discover the latest in solutions journalism for a just, sustainable world at YES! Media. Join us in shaping a compassionate future. #SolutionsJournalism ...

Jade Prévost-Manuel is a Canadian multimedia journalist, writer, and copy editor. Covering stories from abortion movements in Haiti to the impact of foreign healthcare recruitment programs in Morocco, ...

The helpline began in Massachusetts, but a coalition of California-based advocacy groups are promoting its use across the Golden State. Their goal is to make the helpline widely accessible to people ...