Frank Hopper shares the story of how Washington’s Puyallup Tribe helped pass Initiative 940, the nation’s first measure ending qualified immunity for police.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/washington-police-accountability-law
Along with the families of other police shooting victims and the financial support of every federally recognized tribe in Washington state, the Puyallup Tribe helped pass the nation’s first pol...
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2024/03/11/washington-police-shooting-immunity-tribe
This investigative report uncovers questionable sourcing and a striking lack of physical or eyewitness evidence in two early reports that have been widely cited to bolster claims that Hamas commi...
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2024/03/05/israel-hamas-oct7-report-gaza
Reparations for Black Americans are past due. Edgar Villanueva makes the case for reparations as an election issue.
Biden's unflinching support for Israel's genocide of Gaza threatens both Biden’s reelection and the United States amid fears that Donald Trump will win a second term.
Trump appointed a third of the Supreme Court. Now, that same court will decide his fate.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/2024-colorado-trump-election-supreme-court
Right-wing audiences got a deeply distorted view of the verdict against Donald Trump in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit. Media Matters’ Courtney Hagle explains why and what to do about it.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/trump-e-jean-carroll-defamation
With Donald Trump’s landslide win at the Iowa Republican caucuses, pro-democracy groups are planning massive voter education campaigns.
As Trump itches to return to the White House, how tenuous is U.S. democracy three years after the attack on the Capitol?
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/2024-trump-election-veterans
Huwaida Arraf explores possible solutions to Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, including enforcing international law and mass global solidarity with Palestinians.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/us-israel-biden-palestine-gaza
After a decade on the Seattle City Council, Kshama Sawant reflects on her legacy—and what comes next.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/seattle-city-council-socialist-sawant
Rio de Janeiro’s Port Zone was once the largest slave port in the Americas. As developers work to “revitalize” the area, Black activists are fighting to retain the remnants of the district�...
https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2023/12/11/tech-rio-brazil-black-history
Project Censored’s latest report shows that corporate media missed or misrepresented dozens of critically important stories this year.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/2024-report-media-censorship
Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding says massive voter turnout in 2024 is the best chance to counter the continued dismantling of the Voting Rights Act.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/voting-rights-act-2024-election
Adhering to the tenets of a liberal democracy matters more than age.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/elders-2/2023/11/30/age-congress-democracy
Award-winning Palestinian American author Laila Elhaddad is one of the lead plaintiffs suing the Biden administration over its funding of Israel’s unfolding genocide in Gaza.
In this op-ed—which the Journal of the American Medical Association rejected—three doctors say the medical establishment should be morally unambiguous on bombing hospitals.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/11/28/hospital-israel-bombing-gaza
Medea Benjamin sees a pattern in how Western media reported on the U.S. war in Iraq and how they are covering Israel’s war on Gaza today.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/israel-gaza-media-coverage
Voters in Republican-led Ohio elected to enshrine reproductive freedom into the state constitution. Here's what that could mean for the 2024 election.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/ohio-abortion-election-results
Israel’s war on Gaza is built on dehumanization of Palestinians. Physician Rupa Marya urges the world to ”rehumanize” Gazans.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/gaza-israel-palestinians-healthcare
Black Americans have long expressed solidarity with Palestinian people, going back to Dr. King and the Black Panthers.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/11/06/roots-of-black-palestinian-solidarity
We live in an era where, in theory, we have accepted that all human beings are deserving of equal treatment—that skin color, national origin, language, accent, clothing, and other markers
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/11/02/gaza-genocide-humanizing-palestinians
After three weeks of Israel’s war, the devastation in Gaza has surpassed anything I have seen in 30 years as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon working in conflict. The sheer
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/11/01/medicine-palestine-israel-hospital
Will New York perpetuate the shameful practices of the colonialist past—or take a stand for justice at last?
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/11/01/ny-native-stamp-seneca
Dr. Stephen Zunes offers an in-depth exploration of the international laws defining Israel and Hamas' behavior.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/israel-gaza-hamas-international
Here we go again. On Sept. 12, soon-to-be-deposed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced an “impeachment investigation” into President Biden. McCarthy was clearly trying to appease the extrem...
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/10/12/2024-vote-election
The “father of the atomic bomb” thought the only effective way to control it was through a global federal republican government.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2023/10/05/oppenheimer-world-government
The planning profession is rooted in principles that puts business ahead of people. Some people are beginning to push back.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2023/09/25/urban-planning-people
Legal scholars and groups like Free Speech for People are making a strong case to keep Trump off state-level ballots in 2024.
The Wisconsin GOP’s plan to impeach a Democratic state Supreme Court justice is unsupported by law and would undermine judicial independence.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2023/09/19/wisconsin-impeachment-gop
Passed by Canadian lawmakers in June, the Online News Act stipulates that tech companies must pay journalism outlets if they want to use their content. The U.S. and others could follow suit.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2023/09/18/tech-news-journalism
Frontline communities from California to Puerto Rico lead the fight for energy democracy.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/09/07/energy-democracy
Medicare can finally use its purchasing power to negotiate lower drug prices—but Big Pharma is pushing back.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/medicare-pharma-drug-price
The Fourteenth Amendment automatically bars anyone taking part in or supporting an insurrection from public office.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/09/01/trump-disqualified-presidency
Our country is multiracial but our democracy isn’t—yet.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/growth/2023/08/31/multiracial-nation-democracy-growing-pains
Who controls the reins of artificial intelligence will determine whether it serves us all or the wealthy few.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/growth/2023/08/31/ai-rise-risks
Emergency healthcare, mail delivery, broadband internet, government-issued IDs, and the right to vote often require a physical address.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2023/08/25/navajo-nation-addresses
Google whistleblower Blake Lemoine has strong opinions on the need to regulate AI, as well as to respect the rights of any sentience that emerges from it.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2023/08/22/ai-google-regulate-chatgpt
Trump keeps getting charged with crimes. Should we still care?
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/08/22/trump-indictment-2
The Biden Administration’s decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine is out of step with the rest of the world.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/08/18/cluster-bombs-ukraine-war-biden
Fulton County DA Fani Willis is using laws designed to combat organized crime to prosecute Trump’s election-related crimes.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2023/08/17/trump-charges-racketeering
A Montana judge rules in favor of 16 young plaintiffs in the US’s first constitutional climate trial.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/08/16/montana-climate-trial
Trump was indicted for attempted election overturning, but not for insurrection. Legal scholar Corey Brettschneider dissects the charges.
Long before the recent ruling, a sequence of the Court’s decisions had been gradually eroding the practice.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2023/08/03/affirmative-action-supreme-court
It's true that far-right groups are relying on radio communications. But radio’s connection to movement organizing has a much longer and richer history.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2023/07/24/radio-communications-movement-organizing
A retired judge weighs in on the legal and political ramifications of the former president’s arrest and charges.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/trump-was-arrested-will-he-face-justice
Unionized government employees are stepping in.
From the streets of Iran to the corridors of power in the U.S., the forces that police our morality undermine our mental health and wellbeing.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2023/05/01/morality-police
Justice Clarence Thomas’s newly revealed dealings likely broke the law. Amid calls for his resignation are demands to expand the court.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/supreme-court-clarence-thomas
For “Rising Up with Sonali,” YES! Racial Justice editor Sonali Kolhatkar interviews Lisa Sherman Luna, Executive Director of Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition Votes, and DaMare...
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/tennessee-multiracial-democracy