Ashley Stimpson is a Maryland-based freelance journalist whose work runs the gamut from science and travel writing to profiles and investigative features. Mostly, she writes about wildlife and ...

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 ...

Faced with the spread of militarized police training facilities known as "cop cities," grassroots activists are taking the call to #DefundPolice to cities nationwide.

In the wake of AIPAC’s ouster of two pro-Palestine congressional Democrats, a Jewish American digs into the reality of Zionist influence in American politics.

Generations of readers have discovered the power of books through a family member, a teacher, or LeVar Burton’s Reading Rainbow. But 2.5 million children across the United States are enrolled in ...

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.

The long-term solution to the plastics problem is stopping the flow at its source. But even if we were to magically achieve that today, the world would still be awash in nearly a century’s worth of ...

Collective grief is a powerful tool that has historically fueled social justice organizing—and healing. Everyone is grieving. We may not always know what someone is grieving, or at what stage of the ...

Discover insightful articles on Swiss Schools’ Surprising Solution to Bullying. Join us in exploring solutions for a just, sustainable, and compassionate world. #Swiss Schools’ Surprising Solution to ...

Moving at the speed of trust has allowed this cooperative to create new visions of abundance—far beyond what white supremacist patriarchal hegemony deemed possible.

Caring is a tricky word for many women, as it brims with gendered expectations of labor, open availability, and mental load. Only six months later, Billy Baker’s Boston Globe article went viral, ...

Sarah Gilman is a writer and illustrator covering the environment, natural history, and science. A contributing editor at Hakai and bioGraphic magazines, her work has also appeared in High Country ...