This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The early care and education research field has experienced an eventful — sometimes tumultuous — year, placing it repeatedly in the spotlight. While some states such as New Mexico forged bold solutions…
In October 2025, Typhoon Halong battered Alaska’s western coast, leaving a trail of destruction across rural, coastal Alaska Native communities. Villages like Kipnuk and Kwigillingok were nearly wiped out. In…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mahmoud Barhum crouches amid neat rows of radish and lettuce seedlings on his small organic plot in Qumaisa, a quiet village nestled in the rural rolling hills on Syria’s Mediterranean…
At a landfill on Majuli, which is said by many to be the world’s largest riverine island, a cluster of ungainly birds peck at garbage. Here, on the river Brahmaputra in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There are only three grocery stores in the 1,970-square-mile Rosebud Reservation, home to the Sicáŋğu Lak̇óta people in South Dakota. Many community members drive 20 miles to the nearest store…
When it comes to education news, 2025 was unprecedented. Within days of President Donald Trump taking office in January, tectonic shifts to education policy and child welfare were set in…
Student-athletes across the U.S. are now participating in National Signing Day, when some top high school recruits will officially commit to play for an institution in exchange for six- or…
Krystalyn Musselman holds a worn cardboard box up to the screen on our Zoom call. It’s the anonymous question box she relies on to field queries from high schoolers at…
When a flood, wildfire or other natural disaster hits, evacuating residents are much more likely to grab important documents, family photos, water and clothes than birth control, condoms or menstrual…
The rise in online violence against women human rights defenders, activists and journalists has reached a tipping point, often fueling offline attacks, according to a new report released today, produced…
For a movement so often framed by loss—and confronting a particularly difficult moment—conservation is relearning how to talk about itself, linking conservation discursively to health, human rights, and local resilience.…
In 2018, Alex Diamond, a sociology PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, moved to rural Colombia to study the peace process, a protracted effort to end a…