Nurtured at the grassroots, sited in high-need locations, the community fridges have become so popular that established food pantries are now getting into the act.
September 8, 2017In New York’s most troubled neighborhoods, Service Year members are teaching their neighbors environmental sustainability — all the while learning essential job skills for the workforce.
July 19, 2017A small town’s inclusive and equitable template for other blue-collar towns facing the loss of dirty energy jobs and other polluting industries.
November 3, 2016Climate change is the biggest threat to both our economy and economies around the world. Though the chance to discuss it in this election has been squandered, we have to face facts.
August 22, 2016Why New York's congressional and state Senate races could be donor draws.
April 21, 2016The Nation's Ari Berman has been documenting the impact of new voting restrictions on the presidential primaries in a number of states. We've collected his reports here.
April 21, 2016When you are only beating Louisiana, something is very wrong.
February 19, 2016As bad as Exxon has been in the past, what it’s doing now — entirely legally — is helping push the planet over the edge and into the biggest crisis in human history.
January 20, 2016Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
December 2, 2015This post originally appeared at The Huffington Post. There's an old corruption joke that you'll find variations of in India, in Nigeria, in China -- I've heard versions from everywhere. A bureaucrat from China visits an Indian counterpart and sees the beautiful home and asks, "how did you get this beautiful house?" The Indian functionary answers, "Can you see that bridge?" "Yes" "10 percent," says the bureaucrat, smugly. Then, a decade later, the Indian counterpart returns the ...
