This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated existing inequities around the world, reinforced by violence. To illustrate the long history of oppression, each speaker began with examples of some of the underlying…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Adán Vez Lira, a prominent defender of an ecological reserve in Mexico, was shot while riding his motorcycle in April. Four years earlier, the renowned activist Berta Cáceres was shot dead in her…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What does accountability in philanthropy look like today? This was a particularly salient question at the Just Transition Forum, a powerful cross-sector convening hosted by the Building Equity and Alignment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Located two-and-a-half hours southwest of Washington, D.C., on Virginia’s Valley Pike, the city of Staunton, Virginia, was founded in 1747. In 1856, the future twentieth-eighth president, Woodrow Wilson, was born…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea While the battle over privacy is everywhere in American life, it’s actually a relatively new concept…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the World Wide Web celebrates its 30th birthday this year, much has been made about the risks of the connected world. At Future State, we are committed to building…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Researcher Lauren Zalla discovered that the CDC was using a statistical method that controls for geography when reporting deaths from COVID-19 by race and ethnicity. This distorts the rates of COVID deaths…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There is a lot of speculation right now about what is going on in rural America. The perspectives vary wildly from the Hunger Games to the Hallmark Channel—abject poverty and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The recent success of digitally-coordinated protest movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo has sparked a wave of interest in the potential for technology to transform the ways in which…
PACE Executive Director Kristen Cambell interviewed Andrew Hanauer, CEO of the One America Movement, a national nonprofit that works to confront toxic polarization and division by equipping faith communities to work…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Overdoses increased some 20 percent in the United States between June 2019 and June 2020, to more than 81,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s the most fatal overdoses…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the late 1990’s, Los Angeles was facing a crisis as discontent neighborhoods across the city expressed their displeasure at being under-represented by city government. The most visible sign of…