In January, the Yurok Tribe in California bought a 40-acre farm. Located next to an elementary school and the tribe’s Head Start program, the farm will serve as an outdoor classroom for children as ...

I had a fascinating breakfast conversation with my 11-year-old daughter a few days back. The night before I had a fitful dream—one that was short on plot and imagery, but chock-full of emotion. In ...

Our relationship with work can be summed up in two words: It’s complicated. Here in the United States (and elsewhere, too), work dominates our lives. Upon meeting someone new, our standard first ...

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference, an anthology of work from YES! Magazine. In the last 100 years, we got very confused ...

“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 ...

Lessons people of color have taught me that changed my life—and could change yours too. And I understand why Peggy McIntosh’s “Knapsack” article continues to fill anti-racist syllabuses 26 years later ...

As a new, saner administration sets up shop in Washington, D.C., there are plenty of policy initiatives this country desperately needs. Beyond a national plan for the COVID-19 pandemic, progressives ...

Ten years ago, Susan Dentzler of NPR was retained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to investigate whether time banking (a system that lets people swap time and skill instead of money) was “a ...

The little city of Hazen, North Dakota, population 2,300, is the kind of town where farming and ranching families often have a second income from a job at a power plant or a coal mine. As a teenager, ...

Art has always been a medium to not only express a person’s identity and journey, but also to challenge the complexities of the world at large. In recent years, amid growing discussions of media ...

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 possibilities for ...

Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone. Biologist Teresa Ryan has seen a lot of clear-cuts and loaded logging trucks. But this ...