| Feb 12, 2019 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI became involved in climate advocacy when I realized how dramatically my son’s life would be affected by climate change if we don’t do anything. He was three years old when I started to imagine what his world would be like when he graduates from school, when he gets...
| Jan 10, 2018 | Rights / DemocracyHistorians won’t look fondly on 2017. The news cycle was dominated by sexual assault, widespread anxiety, the unedited musings of a mentally unstable president, rising economic inequality, and an opioid epidemic. And in case you forgot, the planet is still on...
| Oct 21, 2015 | Environment / HealthHaving scored one big victory for jobs and the environment, a group of Baltimore activists is trying to take things to the next level. Curtis Bay, their heavily polluted Baltimore neighborhood, had been bracing for a $1 billion garbage incinerator that would have...
| Nov 28, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyThe video sophomore Thomas Fowler shot of a campus cop attacking a group of about 20 University of California, Davis students with pepper spray at close range during a peaceful protest has gone viral. Although this outrageous incident has garnered widespread media...
| Feb 2, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyBeing a young American today can be discouraging. Things don’t look so good for us, even since Bush left office, leaving behind an awful lot of cleaning up for us “Millennials” to do. BusinessWeek dubbed us a “lost generation,” because 18 percent of us can’t find...
