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The SOTU Speech We Could Have Heard

Obama鈥檚 speech addressed progressive issues such as jobs, women鈥檚 rights, and clean energy. But it left the need for a larger economic transformation untouched.

John Cavanagh | Feb 14, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Oakland Youth Swap Fast Food for Fresh Food

Video: A group of young people in West Oakland are taking control of what they eat and using pedal power to bring local groceries to produce-strapped communities.

| Feb 13, 2013

Is There Inspiration in Your 无码视频 Diet?

Video: At TEDx, YES! magazine editor Sarah van Gelder discusses the 鈥渕ean world syndrome鈥� caused by excessively negative news coverage, and describes how solutions journalism creates a more balanced鈥攁nd hopeful鈥攑oint of view.

Sarah van Gelder | Feb 11, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too

It鈥檚 organic. It鈥檚 local. But did the workers who picked it have health insurance?

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern | Jan 31, 2013

Clean elections | Citizens United

The Last of the Big Money Elections?

The movement to overturn Citizens United might just make 2012鈥檚 record election spending into the end of an era.

Peter Schurman | Jan 24, 2013

Remembering Aaron Swartz, 鈥淎lpha Geek鈥� and Defender of Online Freedom

Aaron Swartz took his own life at the age of 26, after years of legal trouble over academic articles he downloaded and intended to share. He leaves behind a legacy of thinking about the power of the internet to shape our political lives.

Micah L. Sifry | Jan 18, 2013

Movement to End High-Stakes Testing Steps Up in Seattle

Teachers at two Seattle high schools violated district policy and their union contracts by refusing to administer a mandatory test. And signs abound that teachers around the nation are ready to stand up, too.

Dean Paton | Jan 15, 2013

Citizens United

A Feel-Good Movie about Fracking? YES! Interviews Producer of 鈥淧romised Land鈥�

Chris Moore, who co-produced 鈥淕ood Will Hunting,鈥� has a new film starring Matt Damon as a corporate salesman trying to open up a small town to fracking. Here, YES! publisher Fran Korten gets Moore鈥檚 take on the ideas behind the film.

Fran Korten | Jan 8, 2013

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