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This Is Your Brain on Truth

The more we learn about people, cultures, and environments different from our own, the more empathy we have for the experiences of others—and the more our moral compasses veer toward

Sonali Kolhatkar | Sep 4, 2024

This Is Gender-Affirming Care

All people deserve access to this necessary medical care.

Jacob Anderson-Minshall, Sunnivie Brydum | May 23, 2024

The Weight of the Cloud

Our data has real impacts on the planet and its people.

Steven Gonzalez Monserrate | Mar 4, 2024

Love Is Good Medicine

It’s never too late for love, goes the adage. But is it harder to find intimacy as you age? And is it worth the trouble?

Sonali Kolhatkar | Nov 30, 2023

An illustrated landscape shows a bansai tree, savanna ant, construction equipment to clear-cut a forest, and riverbeds.

Climate

Stop Planting Trees

Long touted as an environmental panacea, mass tree planting can actually do more harm than good.

Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz | Aug 31, 2023

Water

The Great Guzzlers: Who’s Using All Our Water?

Among the forecast effects of climate change, one in particular poses special concern: We’re running out of water.

Chris Winters | May 18, 2023

Fat Liberation

The “Obesity Crisis” Is a Fatphobic Myth

Fatness is treated as a moral failure, but the facts show it is all systemic.

Evette Dionne | Nov 21, 2022

Affordable housing | Water

Energy, Housing, Food, Water: What’s a Fair Share?

What equitable resource distribution looks like.

Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz | Aug 10, 2021

How Public Banks Benefit… the Public

Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz | Feb 19, 2020

Mental health | Mindfulness | Empathy

5 Myths We Need to Stop Believing About Mental Illness

How to reduce stigma in society? Check your facts.

Erin Sagen, Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz | Sep 13, 2018

Affordable housing | Wealth and inequality

Infographic: Why Normal People Can’t Afford a House

The U.S. is better at subsidizing wealthy people than low-income people.

Chris Winters, Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz | Jun 4, 2018

Health care

Infographic: The Link Between Cooking at Home And Living Longer

We spend less time in the kitchen than ever. But here's why Michael Pollan says cooking could be an important solution to our public health crisis.

Doug Pibel | Dec 6, 2013

Cooperatives

Just the Facts: What’s So Good About Co-ops?

Why support the co-ops in your community? The benefits might be further-reaching than you think.

Feb 20, 2013

Renewable energy

To Save Our Ecosystems, Stop Overloading Them

Left alone, natural systems keep nitrogen, carbon, and other key ingredients of life balanced.

Doug Pibel, Madeline Ostrander | Nov 20, 2012

We’ve Got Some Big Houses—That We Could Share

Just 60 years ago, the average American had 291 square feet of living space. Now it’s close to 1,000 square feet. Have we changed our needs that much? Or just our wants?

Doug Pibel | May 24, 2012