Yes! Magazine

Yes! Magazine is a nonprofit, independent publication focused on solutions journalism, highlighting stories that promote social justice, environmental sustainability, and community resilience. Founded in 1996, the magazine covers a wide range of topics, including climate change, economic inequality, racial justice, and grassroots activism. Yes! Magazine emphasizes actionable solutions and positive change, offering in-depth articles, essays, and interviews that inspire readers to engage with and support transformative initiatives. The platform aims to provide a counter-narrative to mainstream media by focusing on hope, empowerment, and the potential for collective action to create a more just and sustainable world. It also offers educational resources and a newsletter to keep readers informed and motivated.

1. Terra Affirma: A Hybrid Wild

   Not all bedrock is stone.

2. How Including People With Disabilities Benefits Everyone

   The presence of employees with disabilities can make companies and organizations more collaborative, inclusive, and attractive to job seekers.

3. Self-Determined: Foundations Must Match the Far Right’s Commitment to Systemic Change. Here’s How.

   In today’s hostile political climate, philanthropy must move beyond performative gestures and into authentic partnership.

4. Safe Homes: India’s Mixed-Status Couples Navigate Caste and Faith

   India’s social fabric remains hostile to interfaith and intercaste couples. But “safe homes” offer some security.

5. Rebuilding the World through Queer Video Games

   Video games will not fix a broken world, but queering them can show players and non-players alike how to reimagine ours.

6. Why Sanders’ Call to “Fight Oligarchy” Resonates More Than Ever

   Bernie Sanders is attracting crowds of tens of thousands across the U.S. as he rallies against the growing influence of billionaires within the federal government.

7. The Fight to Preserve Medicaid for Disabled Children in California

   A budget proposal from House Republicans could gut Medi-Cal. Families and advocates want to preserve a more certain future for their children’s care.

8. ‘Patrice’ Captures the Fight for Marriage Equality for Disabled Couples

   Disabled couples risk losing their benefits when they marry. A new documentary spotlights the fight to change that.

9. Resisting Repression: What’s Next for the Student Fight for Palestine?

   Facing suspensions and threats from the Trump administration, students are evolving their organizing defenses.

10. Trauma Prevention Is Crime Prevention

    When people's needs are met, there is less violence—and less need for policing and prisons.

11. How Popular Resistance Constrained Trump in His First Term

    If activists want to oppose Trump in his second term, then they must study the successful progressive movements of his first one.

12. The Trans Organizers Building Better Housing Solutions

    Safe housing eludes many trans people in the U.S. Trans-led organizations are meeting the need.

13. Inside the Student Protests That Shook Columbia University

    A new documentary follows Mahmoud Khalil and other student activists as they fight for divestment and Palestinian liberation.

14. The Makah Tribe Is Calling Back the Whales

    Celebrating the Tribe’s victory in their decades-long struggle to legally resume hunting gray whales.

15. 10 Organizing Principles for Defeating Trumpism 2.0

    “Playing nice ain’t going to cut it with people who want to kill you and your community,” writes Arun Gupta. “We need principles that build power now and for the long term.”