At The Root: Coming Fall 2026!
Articles below are sample teasers...
At The Root is a new kind of publication, a place to slow down, take a breath and widen our gaze as we more deeply explore the news and the defining issues shaping our time, across the terrain of our inner lives, our shared world,
and the places where they meet.
We map the root causes beneath those issues and illuminate the deeper stories, practices, and possibilities that help us see more clearly and meet this moment
with more compassion, creativity and wisdom.
We are here for people exhausted by the fear, outrage, and shallow analysis dominating today’s media landscape, and longing for something deeper: clarity beyond the noise, coherence out of confusion, and pathways toward repair.
Something is off, and we can feel it…
The narratives our media feeds us, across news coverage, commentary, social media, etc., profoundly shape what we notice, what we fear, how we make sense of both our lives and our world, and what we believe is possible. And far too often, these very stories shaping us are failing us.
At The Root is here to help us see ourselves, our world, and this moment more wholly — going beneath the overly simplistic and often destabilizing narratives that dominate so much of our media, to better understand what is actually driving and shaping us.
At The Root is committed to the Whole story
We do not minimize the challenges we face or dodge difficult topics. We are living through real crises: in our politics, climate, communities, relationships, mental health, and institutions. We engage with the hard truths and make room for the full range of emotions they can stir. But crisis is not the whole story. Amid the division, denialism and despair, there are also stories of possibility, resilience, healing, courage, and creativity unfolding all around us.
At The Root shines a light not just on what is breaking down, but what is breaking through. Not just how I heal, but how we heal together. This means we explore the intersections that most mainstream media keeps separate: the psychological and the political, the personal and the systemic, the moral and the practical, the wound and the repair.
We pay careful attention not only to what stories we tell, but also to the state they leave us in. We offer perspectives that help us understand what is happening without being swallowed by it. Perspectives that leave us more reflective than simply reactive. More whole than fragmented. More capable when the world feels overwhelming.
So much of our mainstream media ecosystem keeps us trapped in narrow, often deliberately polarizing stories: us against them, crisis without deeper understanding, conflict without pathways toward resolution. It is largely captured by a profit-first business model—rewarding clicks, outrage, and addictive content over depth. In that system, fear, conflict, and the shallowest takes consistently rise to the top, while wisdom, nuance, and complexity are pushed to the margins, along with real possibilities for repair.
The Interconnect
The crises of our time are not random. They are interconnected expressions of deeper forces running through our institutions, communities, and inner lives. The same disconnection driving political polarization shows up in epidemic loneliness. The same unprocessed fear and trauma that fuels authoritarianism can echo through our relationships, public life, and collective exhaustion. These are not separate stories. They share many of the same roots.
When we grasp these roots clearly, something shifts. Cynicism and isolation begin to loosen their grip. The commonality of our lived experience comes into focus — all of us wanting to be safe, seen, accepted and loved. And we notice not only of repair at the roots, but the ways in which its seeds are already sprouting in far more places than our media ecosystem tends to show us.
At The Root exists to help more people see and share that bigger picture, bringing together some of today’s most thoughtful writers, thinkers, journalists, practitioners, advocates, and artists working across psychology, systems thinking, culture, politics, spiritual and wisdom traditions, lived experience, and movements for change. A trusted place to turn for the voices this moment most needs.
A few examples of the kinds of stories you’ll find At The Root:
You might read about political polarization and see the story beneath the shouting: not just red versus blue, or democracy versus authoritarianism, but the roots of fear, isolation, distrust, economic insecurity, and outrage-driven systems pulling us apart. And you would also see what most coverage misses: the bridge-builders, local communities, and civic experiments quietly proving that something different is possible.
You might read about school violence and youth mental health and look beyond the usual debates to the deeper roots: trauma, isolation, emotional dysregulation, and despair. You begin to see why social-emotional learning, mindfulness, restorative practices, and real emotional support may prevent more harm than another metal detector ever could.
You might be struggling with anxiety, chronic stress, or the residue of old trauma, and find not just explanation but genuine pathways: the science of nervous system regulation, guided practices you can try — meditation, somatic practices, breathwork — and the deeper understanding of why so many of us are carrying so much right now.
You might look at democratic erosion, climate anxiety, parental burnout, or the weight of collective exhaustion, and come away not with hopelessness, but with a clearer sense of what’s happening, why old patterns keep repeating, and where new possibilities are already emerging.
We cover a wide range, from democracy and political culture to mental health, relationships, education, climate, spirituality, and the inner life — and the deeper forces that connect them.
This is not passive media.
This is a space where, together, we build community and belonging around deeper ways of knowing ourselves and our world.
From that shared understanding, we can help grow a movement of repair and renewal, in service of the more whole and humane world that wants to emerge.
From the root.