This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the ACLU was established in 1920, the freedoms enumerated in the Constitution had never been fully tested in the courts, and only through persistent and broad public activism have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. U.S. Gross Domestic Product is one of the most-cited economic statistics and is regularly regarded as shorthand for measuring the economic outcomes of the entire nation. Although it once represented…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We assess how rising concerns about climate change affect disclosures to financial markets. Today, 60 percent of publicly traded firms reveal at least something about climate change. The largest volumes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As European countries seek to revive their economies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, an acute labor shortage in a variety of sectors risks stopping the recovery in its…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The 30 percentage-point homeownership gap between Black and white households is wider today than it was in 1960, when explicit housing discrimination was still legal. Applicants of color experience higher…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There is a heightened sense of urgency leading up to COP26, the 2021 installment of the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, which will be held in Glasgow from October…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On any given day in the United States, close to 100 people are killed by firearms. For each death, two more people are injured. Whether it takes the form of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our nation’s social infrastructure is composed of the economic and social investments that are necessary for U.S. workers and families to be able to take care of their loved ones…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From opposite sides of the Atlantic, Shaady Salehi of the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project (TBP Project) and Ben Cairns of the Institute for Voluntary Action Research’s (IVAR) “Open and Trusting” initiative are working to radically…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the six years since the first Fortune Change the World list was published, and particularly over the past 18 months, there have been increased calls for the world to reimagine capitalism and for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When TPI launched the Invest for Better (IFB) initiative more than three years ago, we imagined it would be a time-limited campaign to motivate and educate women to activate their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Power operates in every domain of human life: in families and communities; in social, civic, and economic organizations; and in political states and regimes. Reclaiming democracy means contending with power.…