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 ...

“Don’t Owe. Won’t Pay.” Everything You’ve Been Told About Debt Is Wrong With the nation’s household debt burden at $11.85 trillion, even the most modest challenges to its legitimacy have revolutionary ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thank you! Powerful stories can change the world. Women’s suffrage. Abolition. Civil rights. Each began with stories that planted the seeds of powerful ideas and inspired millions with new ...

Breanna is a deputy editor at YES!, where she has led coverage of environmental justice since she joined the team in November 2019. An award-winning journalist with nearly a decade of experience ...

My favorite meme about so-called gay frogs—feared to be feminized by toxic chemicals—is captioned “You have to be male or female!” Directly beneath this exclamation is a cartoon drawing of a ...

Public Pharmaceuticals Written by Dana Brown The global medicines market is dominated by large private drug companies responsible for a decline in meaningful innovation as well as skyrocketing prices, ...

So-called “rights of nature” arguments, a novel conservation strategy dating back to the 1990s, have been lodged in 397 cases across 34 countries and even the United Nations, according to the Eco ...

In July 2022, seven years after Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission called for an apology on Canadian soil for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in Indigenous boarding schools, Pope Francis ...

As kids head back to school and the general election nears, there’s a question on the minds of many families: How will the election outcome affect kids and their education? Polling from the National ...

The movement to shift funding away from policing and prisons and into social services and public safety programs gained significant traction four years ago during the George Floyd protests. Led by ...