Jan 22, 2026
Communities #210 Spring 2026 Leadership, Democracy, and Autocracy Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #210, Spring 2026, “Leadership, Democracy, and Autocracy,” explores how communities address questions of authority, influence, governance, and... Oct 18, 2024
Communities #205 Winter 2024 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. The stories in Communities #205 explore community Across the Generations. A founder reflects on her former group’s legacy among its grown children; grandparents celebrate helping raise their... 
May 6, 2023
Communities #199 Summer 2023 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #199 explores different ways of balancing Freedom and Responsibility in community. Authors describe a wide range of approaches to community participation, money, childrearing,... 
Aug 7, 2021
By Paul Freundlich Excerpted in Communities #192 (available here). See Communities #191 for Parts One and Two of this article series. Community, both as ideal and reality, has the capacity to transcend the usual boundaries. Not only in shared living, it flourishes in... 
May 21, 2021
Communities #191 Summer 2021 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Our Summer 2021 issue of Communities, #191, focuses on Ecological Culture. Articles range from in-depth stories of ecovillage life, to examinations of the role of language in culture, to... 
Oct 25, 2020
By Lois Arkin I’m vulnerable. At 83, with the COVID-19 surge, I am told to stay in, get help for my groceries, mask myself before opening my apartment door. Since I plan to live to be 100, and the future incarnations of this and similar viruses are uncertain, I wonder... 