Democracy

Last week, leaders from more than fifty African countries convened for the first Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) to discuss solutions to escalating climate and biodiversity crises. Held in Kigali, Rwanda, APAC…

The United States has long struggled with a health care system that is both expensive and often inaccessible when it comes to providing certain populations with equitable care. The White…

Antisemitic incidents have shown a sharp rise in the United States. The Anti-Defamation League, a New York-based Jewish civil rights group that has been tracking cases since 1979, found that…

Philanthropies aspire to lofty goals—solving seemingly intractable problems, creating a more just society, curing diseases, and deepening our understanding of our place in the universe. But the success of these…

Last month, we took to the Capitol to fight for our rights as young people living with disabilities. Sitting across from our elected officials, we — two young, able-bodied, confident…

Sitting on a wooden bench in a remote village in Rwanda, a 47-year-old woman named Esther, a mother of three, explains how she’ll spend more than 850,000 Rwandan francs. It’s a…

Many researchers want their research to influence public policy. Many charitable donors also want to influence / improve public policy and often fund the production of research and other activities…

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on one of the most controversial issues in the last 50 years. It overturned Roe v. Wade, the…

There is no such thing as the criminal justice system in the U.S. There are instead thousands of municipal, county, state and federal legal systems that often overlap and contradict one another.…

President Joe Biden calls climate change “the existential crisis of our time” and has taken steps to curb it that match those words. They include returning the U.S. to the…

A study finds that 14% of people who use insulin in the US face “catastrophic” levels of spending on insulin. That means they spent at least 40% of their post-subsistence…