This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2018, when journalists like myself started reporting that China was putting Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in internment camps, experts said we shouldn’t call it genocide — yet. Though they said…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Olivier De Schutter recently conducted a two-month mission to the European Union, where women are more likely to fall into poverty than men, a situation that has further deteriorated as a…
Even before the pandemic and associated economic fallout, one in four working adults in the US earned a wage insufficient to lift a small family out of poverty. The impact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The City of Pittsburgh is implementing an “Equitable Street Tree Investment Strategy” to better distribute and maintain tree canopies in low-income and low-canopy neighborhoods as it pursues a goal to plant 100,000…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From redefining the idea of beauty to eliminating the stigma of mental health issues, social activism comes in many forms. And this drive to bring change to communities has made…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The oil industry’s lobbying arm, the American Petroleum Institute, suggested in a new draft statement that it might support Congress putting a price on carbon emissions to combat climate change,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Murray J. Côté, Texas A&M University; Tiffany A. Radcliff, Texas A&M University, and Walter Thomas Casey II, Texas A&M University-Texarkana The governors of Texas and Mississippi announced that they were…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I don’t know anything about public health. And none of us know what the world is going to look like after COVID-19. Especially as loved ones and people around us…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a world of growing inequality, attacks on the rule of law, and deep uncertainty, there is no better time to examine legal action as a key tool for interrogating…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite some steps taken by the Department of Defense (DoD), sexual assault and harassment prevention within the services and at individual installations could be substantially improved. The services could address…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Texas’ experience of last month’s deadly winter storm may have grabbed headlines, but its neighbors fared just as badly. Two weeks after the storm first touched Mississippi — and one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change is one of those rare issues that touches every aspect of our economic, social, and physical security. The United States continues to be one of the planet’s highest-emitting…