I am sitting in my eighth-grade civics class learning what it is to be an American. On this day, on a boxy television screen, Gregory Peck, tall and handsome in his button-down vest, grapples with his ...

When people's needs are met, there is less violence—and less need for policing and prisons.

At the height of the movement at Standing Rock, Indigenous teens half a world away in Norway were tattooing their young bodies with an image of a black snake. Derived from Lakota prophecy, the ...

Much environmental framing misses the point about capitalism and Indigenous sovereignty. In this era of catastrophic climate change, why is it easier for some to imagine the end of fossil fuels than ...

Children are learning and playing joyfully in nature again, from suburbs in Colorado to the fringes of Chicagoland. At the beginning of the 20th century, untempered industrialization and rampant ...

Campaign finance is part of the problem, but have you heard of the “capital strike”? In 1931, the philosopher John Dewey lamented that “politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.” ...

I’m a natural to review Ijeoma Oluo’s new book, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Seal Press, 2020). I am White, male, American, and when I taught at the University of Texas at ...

“Imagining the impossible is what people have been doing in the struggle for liberation,” says academic and activist Ruthie Wilson Gilmore in a conversation about her latest book. For more than 30 ...

Renewable energy isn’t just a green business venture; it’s a way to support tribal self-determination and economic development. For tribes like those Covenant Solar works with, the switch to solar ...

It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned—and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and by our governments.

Twelve years ago, unintended pregnancies among young women in Colorado was at a stubbornly high rate. Federally funded family planning clinics in the state had been providing free contraception to ...

Today, I am thinking about love. A fraught, confusing, full-of-potential kind of love. It’s like this: I’m writing to you on the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., a Black man who was murdered ...