The Best of YES! Magazine

Ethnic grocery stores have served as a cultural pillar of immigrant communities. Can they survive today’s economic challenges?

More than 30 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the burden of enforcement often still falls on disabled people and their families.

An increasing amount of research shows that good health practices and outcomes can spread throughout a community, even outweighing the influence of immediate family members.

Evette Dionne’s new and highly personal book pushes back against cultural and medical fat shaming.

A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it.

«This form of organization is known as a holarchy, where each element—from cells on up—is a coherent entity in its own right, while also an integral component of something larger.»

Is there a way we can be critical of our cultures of consumption, while also preserving the spirit of abundance?

“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.

A shift away from maximizing profits and to employee ownership can yield a more positive impact.

If we don’t address our cognitive dissonance, we’ll get stuck where we are, and diminish our capacity for progress.

Frugality isn’t just a virtue practiced by bygone generations. It can also be a break with an all-consuming capitalist system.

People of color are pigeonholed almost exclusively into constrained narratives of trauma and rejection, our anguish commodified for consumption. It’s time to change this.

Expecting people to speak a language in a specific way is more indicative of a colonial mindset and less of the speaker's ability to utilize and comprehend English.

To heal ourselves, we must remember that we are a small part of a much greater whole, writes adrienne maree brown in their June column.