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We Redesigned the YES! Website. Here’s What’s New
You might notice things look a little different around here. For the past year, in addition to producing the inspiring solutions journalism you’ve come to love and expect from YES!, our staff has been...
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10 Stories Readers Loved in 2019
As 2019 comes to an end, I find myself reflecting on everything that’s happened this year. From the horrific treatment of families at the border, to global climate strikes led by Gen Z, to a historic...
View ArticleWhat Do You Want to See From YES! in 2020?
It’s 2020, and YES! is formally launching a renewed effort to better communicate with you, our incredible, loyal, thoughtful, inspiring readers. The first step of this effort is the launch of the...
View ArticleAnnouncing a Comments Section You’ll Actually Want to Read
We have some more exciting news to share. As you’ve hopefully noticed, things look a little different around here. We’ve redesigned the YES! website (more on that here), but those changes aren’t...
View ArticleShare Your Thoughts on “The World We Want” Special Issue
The most crucial component of getting to the world we want is you. To help you connect with us and each other in positive ways, YES! has launched a friendly new commenting platform. Created by Vox...
View Article“The World We Want” Issue: Available Through April 23
The spring issue of YES! is available for just a couple more days when you get a subscription to YES! Magazine. In this issue, we ask what it will take to build the world we want in the next decade....
View ArticleInspiration During Coronavirus: YES! Responds to COVID-19 Crisis
Dear Readers, Yesterday, my co-worker Camille returned from the grocery store, rattled by a scene unimaginable just days ago. Our neighborhood market had been transformed: extra long lines, parents in...
View ArticleCompassion During Coronavirus: How Is Your Community Responding to COVID-19?
Like many of you, the YES! staff is hunkered down at home, practicing physical—not social—distancing. Crises like the coronavirus require us to band together and lean on each other. Hopefully you’re...
View ArticlePeek Inside the New “Community Power” Issue
The Summer 2020 issue of YES! explores how communities are responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Its stories are organized around what we have witnessed: We have seen the power of community … to...
View ArticleShare Your Thoughts on the Community Power Issue
This is a dedicated space for you to tell us what inspired you, what made you think, and what you could have done without. Your words could end up in the next magazine, as we’ll publish a few of our...
View ArticleCommunity Conversation: How Can We Ensure That Black Lives Really Matter?
We’re witnessing a global uprising in response to police violence against Black people and the systemic racism that pervades American culture. There has been an invigoration of the movement for Black...
View ArticleYES! Presents: The Pandemic Portal—How This Moment Will Change Everything
Join YES! executive editor Zenobia Jeffries Warfield for a free virtual discussion with YES! contributor and author Nafeez Ahmed and YES! co-founder David Korten on how the pandemic and current global...
View ArticleImagine a YES! Podcast. Now, Tell Us About It
YES! is currently exploring the viability of a regular audio program with some of our partners. Because you, our readers, are the most important part of our YES! community, our first step in any...
View ArticlePeek Inside the Black Lives Issue
We are proud to introduce the Fall 2020 edition of YES!, the Black Lives issue. Since the police killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, millions of people across the country and around the world...
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YES! Presents: How to Make Sure Black Lives Really Matter
Join YES! and Colorlines for “This Uprising: How to Make Black Lives Really Matter,” a virtual discussion with Michael Harriot of The Root and historian Jamon Jordan, hosted by YES! Executive Editor...
View ArticleYES! Media Joins The Trust Project to Tackle Misinformation in News
In a confusing world flooded with misinformation, YES! Media is helping readers and viewers easily recognize reliable, dependable news sources by implementing The Trust Project’s 8 Trust Indicators....
View ArticleNow Hiring: Producer/Host for Radio Pilot
Producer/Host Wanted for Radio Pilot (possible ongoing series)PT/contract position, fee based on experienceDeadline to apply: Nov. 8, 2020 YES! Media and Public News Service* are looking for a...
View ArticleNo Matter the Election’s Outcome, Our Work Continues
Dear reader, Are you feeling anxious? Scared about what’s to come? Uncertain if this “American experiment” — with all its cruelty and colonialism and racism baked in alongside the unyielding push for...
View ArticleLive Chat: Watch the Inauguration With Us
Join YES! staff and readers here Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 9 a.m. PT/noon ET for a live community chat during the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Pour yourself a cup of coffee, watch some...
View ArticlePeek Inside the “Ecological Civilization” Issue
At the root of so many of the crises we face—climate change, racial inequity, and public health failures—is a society built on greed and selfish wealth accumulation. But there’s another vision for...
View ArticleCommunity Conversation: Share Examples of an Ecological Civilization in Your...
Our latest issue is all about what an ecological civilization looks like. A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it. We...
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Reserve Your Seat for YES! Presents: Solving Plastic
Update: This event is now over, but you can still sign up to get the recording when it is made available. The petrochemical industry continues to flood the world with plastic—poisoning our bodies and...
View ArticleCommunity Conversation: How Are You Fighting Plastic Pollution?
Our summer issue looks at the deep, systemic ways that people around the world are “Solving Plastic.” In theory, the solution is simple: drastically scale back plastic use and production. But powerful...
View ArticleJoin the YES! Team for the Plastic Free Ecochallenge
Dear YES! readers, Do you feel like you’re using too much plastic? Maybe stories from our Solving Plastic issue made you want to reduce the plastic in your life. … I know I feel that way, which is why...
View ArticleCommunity Conversation: How Can We Ensure Enough for Everyone?
Our Fall 2021 issue tackled the existential question that undergirds so many of our current conversations, be they about wealth, food, health, justice, or war and peace: How much is enough? The truth...
View ArticleJoin Vandana Shiva, David Korten, and Sarah van Gelder at Day 1 of YES! Fest
Dear Reader, On Oct. 7-8, you’re invited to YES! Fest, a two-day virtual festival celebrating 25 years of YES! Ahead of the event, I wanted to share a little more about the program for the first day...
View ArticleJoin Alicia Garza, Dallas Goldtooth, and More at Day 2 of YES! Fest
Dear Reader, YES! Fest is coming up on Oct. 7-8, and I want to share some more details about the program for the second day. After hearing from Vandana Shiva, David Korten, Sarah van Gelder, adrienne...
View ArticleWhat Food Makes You Feel Connected to Your Roots?
As the holidays approach and the darkness settles in, many of us will likely experience complicated feelings around food. If this resonates with you, I offer my latest essay, Food as a Portal—to...
View ArticleCommunity Conversation: A New Social Justice
The 100th issue of YES! Magazine marked our 25th anniversary by both looking forward and looking into our past. To understand the origins of the most promising solutions to the myriad systemic...
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How Food Connects Us to Each Other
In November, I wrote an essay on reclaiming my relationship with food. It was one of the most vulnerable pieces I’ve ever written, so I was a little nervous about how it would be received—but I was...
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10 Stories That Gave Readers Hope in 2021
To say the least, 2021 has been another unprecedented year. We witnessed an attack on our nation’s Capitol, record-breaking temperatures and climate catastrophes, and continued escalation of...
View ArticleCommunity Conversation: Personal Journeys
Throughout my five years at YES!, I have been privy to many reader comments and questions, but the one that is asked most often by you, dear readers, is: What can I do? I find this endearing, because...
View ArticleDear Readers: How Do We Stop the Shootings?
Another day in America, another massacre. The country is once again reeling from the latest mass shooting—this time in Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old armed with military-style rifles murdered 19...
View ArticleCommunity Conversation: Pleasure
If you’re feeling burned out, you’re not alone. Living through a pandemic, constant racial injustice, economic inequality, and an ever-more-polarized political system has been, well, exhausting. What,...
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Your Favorite YES! Stories of 2022
The end of the calendar year always brings about reflection—not only on what has been, but also on how we got here. At YES!, 2022 has been a year of transition, of growth and change, and of learning...
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In Memoriam: Lornet Turnbull
Lornet Turnbull, an award-winning journalist and former YES! civil liberties editor, lost her battle with cancer on Jan. 11, 2023—her 59th birthday. The Seattle Times reports that Lornet’s husband,...
View ArticleCall for Submissions: The “Growth” Issue
Despite western culture’s obsession with financial growth and relentless forward motion, the truth is that growth itself is neither good nor bad. Growth is morally neutral; it simply means change. But...
View ArticleYES! Takes a Break
Dear Readers, It’s been a big year for YES! We published more than 300 stories online, four beautiful print magazines—“Growth,” “Thirst,” “Endings,” and “Elders”—and, thanks to the addition of YES!...
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YES! Must-Reads: Black History Now
History is typically associated with the past. But history, in its simplest terms, is the study of change over time. Black History Month—an annual occurrence that some also call “Black Futures...
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YES! Must-Reads: Resist Like a Woman
Woman. It’s such a politicized word. Has its definition ever been fixed? Living in an age where the word “woman” is routinely weaponized in favor of white, cisgender, heterosexual, and male...
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