This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nonprofits across the country are ramping up their GivingTuesday campaigns—but we can’t pretend we’re operating in normal times. The Trump administration and its allies in Congress continue to pursue massive funding cuts,…
The Trump administration’s latest actions to dismantle the Department of Education can be hard to make sense of. On the one hand, this is a milestone moment in conservatives’ long-running…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While carbon dioxide is the primary focus of climate change discussions, almost half of global warming recorded to date comes from pollutants that disappear from the atmosphere within weeks. Known as “super…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Latino entrepreneurs in the United States are starting new businesses and expanding existing businesses in record numbers. Between 2017 and 2022, Latino-owned employer businesses (those that employ at least one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Animal Charity Evaluators’ Better for Animals: Evidence-Based Insights for Effective Animal Advocacy resource is an ongoing project in which we distill key research on different animal advocacy interventions to help us evaluate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There’s budgeting in a downturn—and then there’s budgeting in a political maelstrom. Since January, the Trump administration and its allies in Congress have moved quickly and deliberately to implement a…
Eight people showed up for a zoom call in February of 2023, some of them longtime friends and co-conspirators, others strangers. All shared a commitment to serve on the inaugural…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While serving a sentence of 28-years-to-life in New York State prisons for killing a rival drug dealer, John J. Lennon, a leading incarcerated journalist, has published works of journalism in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The appetite for green buildings has softened globally, led by a sharp decline in the Americas as perceived high costs, unclear returns, and shifting priorities amid geopolitical instability hinder investment…
While the world moves from one breaking news story to the next, the voices and lives of Afghan women are quietly disappearing, cut off from public life, and the futures…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As one housing advocate recently explained about how grassroots initiatives rebuild community and prevent homelessness, “Bottom-up activities at the block level may do more to assist with resilience and community…
From November 10-21, the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as the Conference of the Parties (COP30), will take place in Belém, Brazil. Below, Brookings scholars assess potential outcomes…