Society

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi’s Next Chapter Nancy Pelosi’s Next Chapter

Instead of taking a behind-the-scenes role, Pelosi should spend her remaining time in Congress embracing and extending her commitment to human rights issues.

Nov 25, 2022 / John Nichols

A Turning Point in the Search for Victims of Forced Disappearance

A Turning Point in the Search for Victims of Forced Disappearance A Turning Point in the Search for Victims of Forced Disappearance

Women from Medellín’s Comuna 13 neighborhood have fought for 20 years to excavate a mass grave site. Now, the search has finally begun.

Nov 25, 2022 / Photo Essay / Hanna Wallis

Desmond Meade, the executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition.

Desmond Meade on Why Love Is “the Most Powerful Word in the Universe” Desmond Meade on Why Love Is “the Most Powerful Word in the Universe”

The executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition was homeless, addicted to crack, and suicidal. Now, he has met the president, been one of Time magazine’s 100 mos...

Nov 24, 2022 / Q&A / Karlos K. Hill

President Roosevelt about to carve a turkey

FDR Served Up a Critique of Capitalism With His Thanksgiving Proclamations FDR Served Up a Critique of Capitalism With His Thanksgiving Proclamations

The 32nd president regularly decried “greed and selfishness and striving for undue riches.”

Nov 24, 2022 / John Nichols

We’re Thankful for Our Abortions

We’re Thankful for Our Abortions We’re Thankful for Our Abortions

Many people who have abortions celebrate their experience. Here's why my colleagues and I at We Testify are thankful. 

Nov 24, 2022 / Nikiya Natale

The Undocumented Can Work Jobs at the University of California, and Latinas Are Fighting Toxic Pollution

The Undocumented Can Work Jobs at the University of California, and Latinas Are Fighting Toxic Pollution The Undocumented Can Work Jobs at the University of California, and Latinas Are Fighting Toxic Pollution

On this week's episode of Start Making Sense, UCLA law professor Ahilan Arulanantham and writer Eliza Moreno join the show. 

Nov 23, 2022 / Podcast / Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense

US basketball player Brittney Griner in a Russian prison

Brittney Griner’s Jail Conditions Speak to the Urgency of Bringing Her Home Brittney Griner’s Jail Conditions Speak to the Urgency of Bringing Her Home

If the US doesn’t bring her back, the basketball star’s nine-year prison sentence in Russia’s “land of prisons” will likely be brutal.

Nov 23, 2022 / Dave Zirin

Youth protesters at COP27

In a Historic Move, Frontline Communities Will Be Compensated for Climate Crisis Impacts In a Historic Move, Frontline Communities Will Be Compensated for Climate Crisis Impacts

At the UN climate negotiations, delegates celebrated the decision to create a mechanism by which developed countries will compensate developing countries for the havoc wreaked upon...

Nov 23, 2022 / Tina Gerhardt

Getting Adopted Didn’t Save Me

Getting Adopted Didn’t Save Me Getting Adopted Didn’t Save Me

Two years after I left foster care, my adoptive mother became physically and emotionally abusive. Now, I'm choosing kindness over guilt.

Nov 23, 2022 / StudentNation / George Romero

Counterprotesters rally in opposition to the Kentucky ballot initiative to add an anti-abortion amendment to the state’s constitution

How We Beat an Anti-Abortion Amendment in Deep-Red Kentucky How We Beat an Anti-Abortion Amendment in Deep-Red Kentucky

The key was organizing, through which volunteers connected deeply, authentically, and vulnerably with voters who didn’t agree with them yet.

Nov 23, 2022 / Erin Heaney

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