Experiencing grief from a distance has long been the reality of immigrants. Anyone who leaves their family behind also risks being apart from their loved ones during times of loss—and often this grief ...

Four decades after the deadly gas leak, Dow Chemical continues to avoid accountability for the world's worst industrial accident.

British Columbia affirms Indigenous ownership of the 200 islands the Haida have stewarded for millennia, marking a new path toward reconciliation.

Hope is stronger than optimism at predicting academic success and people’s ability to cope with pain. Plenty of scientific evidence suggests that hope improves individuals’ health and boosts their ...

For the past five years—ever since her son, Marc, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 2 months old—Denise Williams of Adelanto, California, has been trying to schedule doctor’s appointments. Week ...

When we want to know what’s happening in the world, we turn to journalism. When we want to escape from reality, we turn to fiction. But both are forms of storytelling. And both are necessary for the ...

The United Auto Workers’ union victory in Tennessee was the result of strategic decisions, and could herald a bright future for organized labor in the south.

A photographer’s connections with eight Indigenous women have helped her come to terms with her own Native ancestry and colonial trauma.

Students and faculty at colleges nationwide are walking out, occupying their campus grounds, and demanding an end to the U.S.

The Arizona Supreme Court reinstated an 1864 abortion ban—which is now fueling voter enthusiasm for a November ballot measure seeking to permanently restore abortion rights.