Instead of Project 2025's white supremacist vision for voting rights, Progress 2025 envisions universal early voting, a national federal holiday and more.

A new ballot measure in California would reverse progress on reducing mass incarceration. Here's what our regular correspondent Dortell Williams has to say about it.

Kamala Harris can and should be critiqued for her political résumé—but criticism rooted in misogynoir should have no place in political discourse.

Young adult author Jordan Ifueko has created new worlds with her best-selling series Raybearer, centering Black characters and workers.

On Aug. 8, 2023, 13-year-old Kaliko was getting ready for her hula class at her mother’s house in West Maui. The power was out, and she heard there was a

Librarian Amanda Jones refused to stay silent in the face of vicious attacks by a right-wing book-banning campaign. She tells all in a new book.

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has promised a dystopian vision for LGBTQ rights. Its ideas are consistent with authoritarian, Christian nationalist, and white supremacist objectives. It aims to criminalize the existence

Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist long critical of his nation’s apartheid state, offers moral clarity on the first anniversary of the genocide in Gaza.

Incarcerated people in California and many other states can be compelled to work for near-zero wages. A ballot proposition could change that.

In this excerpt from “That Librarian,” Amanda Jones offers a blueprint to battle book censorship in public libraries.

The beguiling, mist-covered forest of Los Cedros provides a vision of a future where the rights of the natural world are actively and effectively protected.

Despite muted microphones during the first debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, each candidate's face spoke volumes.

Right-wing forces are recruiting Asian Americans. Here’s how community members are countering this growing extremism.

Gen Z voters are cautiously optimistic about the vice president. But they want her to end the Gaza genocide.

A new statewide proposal is the latest development in a years-long saga over the voting rights of felons in the Sunshine State.

El Paso’s Teen Court is a peer-driven, youth-led program that centers the well-being of teenagers, instead of condemning them to the destructive criminal justice system.

When hurricanes Helene and Milton decimated multiple states, incarcerated people were left to fend for themselves. That can’t happen again.

Some localities are granting limited voting rights to noncitizens, especially on issues directly affecting them.

Fed up with capitalism’s destruction and inequality, there is a growing movement to build a new model based on “people’s prosperity.”

A journalist takes us inside UAW’s “Stand Up” strike strategy, an innovative spin-off of 1930’s era “sit down” strikes.

A coalition of churches has achieved some successes in resisting and mitigating against rent gouging and displacement after Hurricane Ian.

When Hurricane Ian hit Florida in late September 2022, it took more than 100 lives, becoming the deadliest storm to hit the United States since Katrina in 2005. Hurricane Ian

In bringing electric vehicle battery plants under its national contract, the UAW took a major step toward transitioning away from fossil fuels in a way that protects workers' rights.

Rethinking our connection to the soil can form the basis for new ways of thinking about prosperity and economy

A criminal record keeps many qualified candidates out of work; these coffee companies are helping clear the first hurdle.

Regional waste-reduction programs hold lessons for communities across the globe.

A new database of tribal constitutions tells a more nuanced history of self-governance than the one explained in textbooks.

Surrounded by a 26-foot-high separation wall, barbed wire, and a watchtower, a group of young Palestinians prepares a 3.5-acre piece of land for the growing season in spring. The noise

The National Black Farmers Association just won a historic $2.2 billion in reparations from the U.S. government.

A housing rights organizer analyzes the solutions being proposed this election year to address the high cost of home buying and renting.

Leaning into lineages of resilience and care can be a balm for election-related anxiety for LGBTQ people—and everyone.

Switzerland’s “No Blame” approach eschews punishment, instead focusing on empathy, tolerance, and respect.

We can no longer accept Pride events that only make room for one type of queer person—or that cater primarily to the corporations more invested in rainbow capitalism than collective liberation.

”Atoms Never Touch“ offers a revolutionary premise: The love between trans women is the key to the new world we imagine.

Collective grief is a powerful tool that has historically fueled social justice organizing—and healing.

In rural Argentina, Hacienda Camino offers parents a suite of skills and resources to help raise healthy children.

Advocates are working to overcome patriarchal structures worldwide that deny menstruating people dignity, access, and agency.

Women of color want demographic and political representation, just as wealthy white men have had for generations.

Efforts to decolonize the herring roe harvest in Alaska highlight the contrast between tribal subsistence practices and the Department of Fish and Game’s management strategy.

Best-selling author adrienne maree brown’s new book offers tools to navigate the difficult conversations and dynamics of organizing and belonging.

A note from adrienne maree brown: Gilda Sheppard directed a film called Since I Been Down, in which Kimonti Carter was a protagonist as a transformed man leading his community

Kamala Harris may win the presidency, but the media’s portrayal of her won’t challenge the expectations of those who see Black women as their mammies.

The bond between people and their pets can be life-saving, especially amid the struggle for safe housing.

In an Election Day conversation, Serene Khader reflects on how women were mobilized by attacks on their bodily autonomy, and what post-election organizing can look like.

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