False Prophets of Profit
The truth is Black people are overwhelmingly broke. In 2021, nearly 25% of Black families in the United States had either no wealth (what you own minus what you owe) or negative wealth, according to...
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Queering Objectivity
LGBTQ journalists manage a mighty breadth of work. We are reporting in our local communities, tracking anti-queer and trans legislation across the United States, championing queer and trans youth,...
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Radical Readers
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...
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This Is Your Brain on Truth
The more we learn about people, cultures, and environments different from our own, the more empathy we have for the experiences of others—and the more our moral compasses veer toward fairness. Truth...
View ArticleChoose Us Over Guns
On Aug. 3, 2019, a gunman entered a Walmart in my hometown of El Paso, Texas, and murdered 23 people in a racist rampage. The massacre shattered our community, and, five years later, people are still...
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Untangling the Roots of Wild Foods
For centuries, the gifts of nature have been thoughtfully nurtured according to seasonal rhythms, and foods now deemed “wild” have been cultivated with the same devotion as a cherished garden. This...
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Survivors at the Center
When she was 10, Aishah Shahidah Simmons told her parents her step-grandfather sexually abused her. “They didn’t remove me from the situation because my grandparents provided the ‘safe nuclear home’...
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Voices Beyond Votes
Alicia Nebot still remembers the call she received 16 years ago that sparked a movement in Río Piedras. That day, her church’s reverend told her that the Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico’s...
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Serving Justice
In the early morning hours of May 10, 2023, Brigitte Bandit waited her turn to testify before Texas lawmakers with a message on the back of her dress that read: “Restrict Guns, Not Drag.” On the front...
View ArticleSafer Sex Work
Harm reduction has long been considered a nonjudgmental, evidence-based approach to drug use that reduces overdose deaths and infectious disease—adverse consequences exacerbated by the war on drugs....
View ArticleThe Truth Above All Else
In my faith tradition, there’s a well-worn adage that the truth will set us free. This idiom, expressed from the pulpits and at dinner tables, is an encouragement to uphold the truth—about ourselves...
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Truth and Reckoning
When I was in middle school, at a majority-white public school in Montana, I was given an assignment to interview a grandparent about their childhood. The questions were designed to help us better...
View ArticleHow Zionism Wove Itself Into U.S. Politics
On a recent livestream, Grayzone Editor-in-Chief Max Blumenthal suggested the United States has been captured not only by foreign interests, but by one in particular. “I used to think Zionist Occupied...
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Democrats Embrace the Power of Non-Toxic Masculinity
Women have been running for president of the United States since 1872, and for almost that long people have been asking what women need to do in order to break what Hillary Clinton has called the...
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We Will Not Be Saved
It took me years to understand the strange and devastating violence of the savior. My great-grandparents lived deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, in the area now known as the Yasuní National Park. They...
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The Rights of Nature Prevail Again in Ecuador
Jose Martín Ovando suddenly halts in his tracks and crouches down along the steep forest path shrouded in mist, pulling out a magnifying glass from his small backpack to inspect a clump of deep green...
View ArticleMisogyny Didn’t Need a Mic During the Trump–Harris Debate
Everything we needed to know about what would happen at Tuesday night’s presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump—their first-ever meeting—was clear...
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How Healing Circles Create Space for Change
Trixie is a young woman in her mid-20s who recently left an abusive relationship with a boyfriend. She came to my workplace, Walnut Avenue Family & Women’s Center, in Santa Cruz, California,...
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Can U.S. Voters End the Gaza Genocide?
In late August, on the third day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Sheri Maali came to Union Park to send a message. “I would like to see every elected official that is going up...
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