Eleanor J. Bader

Current social and emotional learning protocols fail to address systemic inequities, but integrating social justice principles benefits students and communities.

Online mental health companies are rolling out AI chatbots as therapists struggle with insurance industry changes.

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A small press offers writers support in telling stories of life during and after incarceration.

The Perfect Birth: Pushing Back Against a Broken Industry, by Avital Norman Nathman, with Deborah Wage, vigorously challenges the Heritage assessment and zeroes in on maternity care voids (sometimes called maternity care deserts) throughout the country.Nathman and Wage spoke to Ms. reporter Eleanor J. Bader shortly before the book’s release.

“I know it sounds corny,” writer Dave Zirin tells Religion Dispatches, “but part of Howard Zinn’s secret—the reason he saw hope as a discipline—was that he saw life as an adventure, with triumphs and tragedies, ups and downs. He valued the journey. He believed—and I wish people would tattoo this on their brains—that the way things currently are is not necessarily the way they’re going to be forever.”Zinn’s belief in the power of people to come together and organize to win economic, racial, and gender justice sustained him and led him to teach, write, and make what congress member and civil

The Delivery Protection Act would require corporations like Amazon to directly employ all the people who make online shopping deliveries possible.

Q&A with Yotam Marom, Author of For Louder Days When a group of New York City activists first floated the idea that became Occupy Wall

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was a cost-effective lifeline for low-income people and families—until the Trump Administration gutted it.

Local activists push back against expansion of immigration enforcement workspaces.