This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mississippi’s for-profit colleges are largely drawing low-income students, students of color and women, putting these residents at risk of incurring more debt compared to their peers at nonprofit schools. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2017, #MeToo became the shorthand for a long-overdue reckoning with sexual assault and harassment. Next year, #MeToo could very well be a trending hashtag for investors, fund managers and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to the United Nations Population Fund, the lead U.N. agency addressing gender-based violence in humanitarian settings, there are “horrific” accounts of rape and sexual assault against Rohingya women and girls…
Amnesty International says the EU is complicit in the abuse of refugees in Libya. The Mediterranean refugee crisis, once the top story on every channel, has fallen out of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After months of explaining what happened during the 2016 election to stunned supporters on her book tour, Hillary Clinton finally got to talk about the future, one in which women…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In researching her recent book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote, Johanna Neuman dug through archives and discovered that the decades-long battle to pass the 19th…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Obstetric fistulas are injuries that most often occur during childbirth, when a baby gets stuck in the birth canal, causing a hole to develop between the mother’s vagina, and her…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Colorado is leading the way in terms of creating legislation to address human trafficking. A new state law – driven by Attorney General Coffman – allows authorities to use wiretaps in sex…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The #MeToo movement has sparked global action against sexual violence across entertainment, media and politics. Now, the aid industry — where 86 percent of employees know a colleague who has experienced work-related…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Enthusiasm for long-acting reversible contraception, or LARC, methods, including implants and intrauterine devices, has grown dramatically among development and public health practitioners in recent years. Given their differential burden of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Jenny Leung and her family emigrated from China when she was just three years old, squeezing into a small apartment on top of a steep Daly City, California hill. “I always…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “There’s a strong chance the next Bill Gates isn’t going to look anything like the last one,” wrote Melinda Gates in a recent post taking venture capitalists to task for…