is a senior researcher for the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, the principal investigator for YouthFacts, and the author of five books on American youth.

On a recent livestream, Grayzone Editor-in-Chief Max Blumenthal suggested the United States has been captured not only by foreign interests, but by one in particular. “I used to think Zionist Occupied ...

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“I no longer believe in the Democratic Party,” says Kylie Sparks, a Los Angeles–based actor, writer, and organizer. Sparks volunteered for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2012 and worked on ...

Having ownership over your body and sexuality is extremely difficult when you are a girl or woman. It’s even harder when you’re Black. When you’re a fat Black woman, you’re made to feel like your body ...

Off the coast of Jeju Island, 60 miles south of mainland Korea, a community of women divers from age 30 to 80 don wetsuits and goggles and plunge into the unpredictable waters. Braving fast-moving ...

Día de los Muertos is for remembering those I miss and pondering how to keep them alive in the present moment.

Kyoung Mi Choi explores the additional layers that are involved in coming out as an Asian LGBTQ identifying person. Illustration by Tevy Khou. There was a time when coming out was the worst thing I ...

s a writer based in Johannesburg, South Africa, whose work has appeared in All4Women and Mindsplain.

is a senior editor at YES!, where he specializes in covering democracy and the economy. Chris has been a journalist for more than 20 years, writing for newspapers and magazines in the Seattle area. He ...

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, M.Div. is a descendant of the Umatilla, Nimiipuu, Sac & Fox, and Anishinaabe Nations. She is a transracial adoptee, a.k.a. a Lost Bird, who grew up on an onion farm in rural Oregon. A proud Native ...