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Incisive reporting on elections, primaries, voting rights and the party process.

Earth | Food | Life

Environmental journalism that integrates the path for sustainable lifestyles and an ethical diet.

Local Peace Economy

Inspiring stories of people’s efforts to reshape and reinvest in our local economy.

Our Schools

Going to the front lines of the nationwide effort to privatize and undermine the public education system.

Face to Face

Going beyond headlines, labels and caricatures to find the social, political, spiritual common ground upon which we can build a shared politics.

Economy for All

Making the case for the general welfare of American society and the world at large.

Globetrotter

Lifting the voices of journalists working from the continents of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to make a world free of suffering.

Drug Reporter

Covering the disastrous war on drugs and mass incarceration it produces—and the growing movement to reform it.

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Local Peace Economy Archives

You’ll Know an Economic and Social Justice Plan Is Serious If It Includes Money for the Arts

Don’t Let the EAGLE Act Fly Through Congress: Prevent a New Cold War with China

People in LA Are Feeding Each Other the Food That Would Be Wasted

Climate Crises Can Lead to Improved Social Cooperation and Economy

Why We Must Prevent the U.S. From Launching a Hybrid War Against China

As Many Continue to Struggle Following Last Summer’s Fires in Oregon, Volunteers Are Donating Art, Time and Healing Spaces

When Women Become Allies to Save Watersheds and Wildlife

How Humanity Can Realistically Prevent War From Ever Happening Again

One City’s Pioneering Project to Push Police Funding Into Housing the Homeless

How Making Space for Grief Can Promote Community Healing

How One Rural Community Creatively Solved Keeping Its Residents Well Fed During a Pandemic

COVID-19 Has Exposed the Fragility of Our Food System—Here’s How We Can Localize It

Exploring Local Solutions to Our Collective Crises That Actually Work—From California to Alaska

How the Community Helps Sustain Portland’s Ongoing Black Lives Matter Protests

How New Solar Power Projects Support the Homeless and Fight Against Fossil Fuels

War Is Not Innate to Humanity—A More Peaceful Future Is Possible, Says Historical Anthropologist

Vaccine Leadership or Medical Apartheid?

How Decades of Local Activism Led to the Biggest Dam Removal Deal In U.S. History

Philadelphia’s Unprecedented Housing Deal Will Cede Vacant Houses to Homeless Protesters

How Californians Came Together to Deal With Wildfires During the Pandemic

BlackRock Stakeholders Do Not Consent to Bankrolling Violence

How Artists Have Been on the Front Lines of Political Resistance for the Past 50 Years

Activists Around the U.S. Are Using Street Art to Protest Trump

How a Strike by Strippers in Portland Has Grown Into a Nationwide Movement Against Racism in Night Clubs

Community Fridges Are Popping Up Across America for Mutual Aid Amid the Pandemic