About one-quarter of U.S greenhouse gas emissions come from electricity, so transitioning to renewable energy like solar power is an important part of reducing the nation’s overall emissions. Climate ...

High-profile, disruptive protests can lead to increased polarization—but often still yield increased public support for the protest’s goals, even if the tactics are criticized. This spring, student ...

What do we mean when we talk about “socialism”? Here are ten things about its theory, practice, and potential that you need to know. Over the last 200 years, socialism has spread across the world. In ...

It’s common to hear statistics like the $40 billion it would take to end world hunger or the $30 billion to end homelessness in the United States. And yes, a billionaire like Jeff Bezos could ...

Marek Oziewicz is the Sidney and Marguerite Henry Professor of Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Marek studies stories as a technology for recalibrating ...

A map showing the location of Detroit’s Great Mound from Henry Gillman’s 1877 The Mound-Builders and Platycnemism in Michigan. The Great Mound of the River Rouge. In 2015, I was wrapping up a graduate ...

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 ...

Efforts to invest in “care, not cops” continue in advance of the 2024 election—albeit at a slower pace than in 2020. The movement to shift funding away from policing and prisons and into social ...

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.

This story originally appeared at Waging Nonviolence, and is reprinted here under a Creative Commons license.. On June 11, a week after a police training facility in Richmond, California, broke ground ...

Whether one participates in settler colonialism is not entirely a matter of when or how one’s ancestors came to the U.S. Having settler privilege means that some combination of one’s economic security ...

The physical layering of utopian life on particular plots of land is not so unusual in the United States. Once an 18th- or 19th-century utopian community had cultivated a tract for communal living, ...