The Dakota Access pipeline is funded directly by 15 banks, many of which—Citibank, Wells Fargo—are ones you’ve probably heard of or do business with. In all, three dozen banks are contributing to the ...

Why Costa Rica Tops the Happiness Index How a focus on peace is helping this Central American country top the Happy Planet Index.

A typical American life in 2022 might include spending 50 hours a week mostly alone in a cubicle, riddled with chronic stress but on track for a promotion. Evenings pass isolated in a tower, where a ...

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 ...

What Standing Rock Gave the World Americans saw the Indigenous struggle—the violence, stolen resources, colluding corporations and governments—that goes hand in hand with protecting the Earth.

“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.

What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like? A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it.

For more than four decades, Iranians have resisted through underground clubs, labor strikes, and other everyday acts of defiance. By now, people in the United States and around the world are ...

The Radical Work of Healing: Fania and Angela Davis on a New Kind of Civil Rights Activism "Self-care and healing and attention to the body and the spiritual dimension—all of this is now a part of ...

anti-racism 1. The practice of dismantling a system marked by white supremacy and anti-Black racism through deliberate action 2. A theory that explains and exposes multiple forms of racism: overt and ...

Relationship violence threatens not only students’ physical safety and emotional well-being, but also their academic prospects. Some campuses are finding solutions to help keep survivors in school.

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.