Democracy

Images of unveiled Iranian women and adolescent girls standing atop police cars or flipping off the ayatollah’s picture have become signature demonstrations of dissent in the past few months of…

When Winter Storm Uri hit Texas in February 2021, bringing single-digit temperatures and sheets of snow to Dallas, Susana Edith and a group of volunteers distributed lentil soup and winter…

The western United States is beginning to come to grips with the potential magnitude of the wildfire crisis. Increases in forest wildfire size, severity, and elevation have been linked to a…

In a majority of U.S. states, bills aiming to restrict who can compete in women’s sports at public institutions have either been signed into law or are working their way…

Staff members at Springboard To Opportunities heard repeatedly from their clients that the thing they needed to successfully reach their goals was more cash. In response, the Jackson, Mississippi, organization launched the…

CC BY-NC-ND A new Texas law bans nearly all abortions, and other states have indicated that they likely will follow suit. But the research is clear that people who want…

By the time students poured back into schools this fall, the most disruptive impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to have finally receded. But the lingering effects on children and…

Through her advocacy work, farmer Verónica Mazariegos-Anastassiou is pushing for a better food and agriculture system to support young and beginning farmers in the United States. Mazariegos-Anastassiou, Co-Founder of Brisa Ranch in…

The Boston City Council on Wednesday voted unanimously to create a commission that will study and adopt reparation proposals for African Americans, sending the measure to Mayor Michelle Wu. The…

Navigating the threat of wildfire is an ongoing reality of life in Sonoma County. From 2017 to 2020, fires burned more than 300,000 acres across the county, resulting in devastating losses…