Ben Fink works at Kentucky's Appalshop, a grass-roots multimedia arts center. He writes about how he and his community have been working with each other in the aftermath of the presidential election.

There is a direct line of inheritance from the Declaration of Independence to the marchers who are crowding the streets of America.

There's a way to keep our short attention spans and Trump's norm-shattering behavior from damaging the republic: "Expose and Oppose."

Here are an expert's tips on how to follow it.

At the grass roots, some journalists are trying to answer fake news with the real thing, but they need help.

A teacher in a struggling steel town reflects on the kind of education the next generation needs.

What would the founder of environmentalism say to scientists under attack today?

Dan Rather writes that there are no simple answers or silver bullets and we must begin the work to bring about the change we want to see.

The Small Planet Institute has published an online guide to help people find a way to get involved.

A soon-to-be-published book by a longtime labor organizer chronicles how a grass-roots democracy movement overcame corporate money.