Food Desert or Food Apartheid?

By Hanna Garth

An excerpt from Hanna Garth's Food Justice Undone on how power dynamics warp progress

Tolon’s World

By Christian Seelos, Nazik Beishenaly & Johanna Mair

One Kyrgyz entrepreneur had an ambitious vision for transforming his country into a vital, independent nation free from its Soviet past. He reverse-engineered that vision into a stepping-stone strategy that is already having enormous impact in Kyrgyzstan and beyond.

SSIR Online, Spring 2026 Issue

By SSIR Editors

What SSIR readers are saying about articles on innovation in trying times, data and social justice, and impact investing.

Welcome to the Era of Relational Intelligence

By Isabelle C. Hau 8

As AI begins to transform education, work, and social life, we need to focus on developing and expanding capacities essential for human flourishing.

Freedom for Profit?

Reviewed By Xanthe Scharff

Stephanie Limoncelli's Advocacy, Inc. argues that the anti-slavery movement's business-friendly orientation impairs its ability to advocate on behalf of workers and exploited victims of trafficking.

Spring 2026

The Academic Costs of Social Apps

By Daniela Blei

Excessive screen time, largely spent on gaming apps, is contagious and lowers students' grades and post-graduate income, a Chinese study reveals.

Building a Climate-Activist Ecosystem

By Tim Keary 1

The Kennedy-backed nonprofit Climate Emergency Fund supports disruptive activism to raise awareness of the climate crisis—and is looking to scale. | Open access to this article for non-subscribers is sponsored by an SSIR supporter.