This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Teaching media literacy can help foster student activism by applying a critical perspective to the inequalities within media messages and symbols that students see every day. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Secretary Fudge, with support from other members of the Biden-Harris Administration, launched House America: an all hands on deck effort to address the nation’s homelessness crisis. House America calls upon state and local…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As tens of thousands of Afghans have been forced to flee their country over the last few months, I’ve been listening to Afghans in the United States, worrying both for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last year, you wrote The Forgotten, a book about the role that Luzerne County, Pa., played in the 2016 election. What should we know about places like Luzerne ahead of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How much does it cost to take care of basic needs in prison? Our research team at New York University’s Prison Education Program set out to find an answer to…
When the federal government spends billions of dollars on transportation, water, and other public infrastructure, the expectation is that these projects are being built to last. But over the coming…
On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Bloomberg journalist Deena Shanker joins Mark Bittman, author of the book How to Cook Everything and editor-in-chief of Heated, to talk about how to fix the food…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. All of us have watched the bouncy-castle known as Ozy deflate and then collapse. But there’s one lesson I hope we don’t take away from this: that Black- and POC-led…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Moath al-Alwi was captured by Pakistani forces near the Afghanistan border in December 2001 and given over to the United States military. A Yemeni national, al-Alwi has said he was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public health officials and outside experts warned the federal government for years before the coronavirus pandemic that the US was not focusing enough on public health prevention. They were proven right. Now…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Dr. Daryl Ward emphasizes the importance of building deep, diverse relationships in the art world to seek and understand a variety of opinions. • This advice…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Slowing the pace of climate change, increasing access to health care and comprehensively covering the news are very different but worthy goals with some things in common. One is gridlock.…