As inequality has impacted underprivileged urban communities, local governments have made efforts to make their cities more just. Yet the question remains: Just how progressive are America’s cities?
If activists hope to significantly reduce gun violence in American society, they must overcome this culture of silence and consider the close link between access to guns and suicide.
Ratifying the ERA should be a priority for Virginia lawmakers in 2020 and a national imperative when the time comes to formally ratify the amendment at the federal level.
Third-party candidates work tirelessly to challenge the ways in which people think about the problems facing our country, and they have not given up the hope that one day one of them will sit in the Oval Office.
2020 Democratic presidential candidates' faith-based appeals represent a departure from the recent past and signal a window of opportunity to retool the Democratic party’s appeal to the American people.
Combating climate change requires holding fossil fuel producers accountable for their outsized contribution to the climate crisis by implementing carbon pricing to reflect the true cost of fossil fuels.
In the weeks leading up to the impeachment proceedings, President Donald Trump and his supporters have claimed for their defense a central pillar of American government: democracy. Impeaching Trump is wrong, they argue, because it is anti-democratic. But impeachment is necessarily democratic at every step of the process.
The LGBTQ youth community needs action, not just allyship. Political leaders need to put in the work at the top of our system, just as grassroots groups have been doing at the bottom. Direct services mean nothing if these issues are not being addressed systemically.
