This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last month, the Vera Institute of Justice released a useful report with each state’s prison population as of year-end 2017. Their report fills an important gap until the Bureau of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a society, we have a great deal of experience in mobilizing communities for improving lakes and schools, stopping deforestation, advocating for privacy rights, and much more. Yet, when it comes to our justice delivery…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. So far, and especially in the case of Turkey, support for refugees has focused on making them fit more easily into host country economies. But, with many Syrian refugees now…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.N. Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) will take place in New York on September 23. But more than 300 civil society organizations and Indigenous groups are boycotting the event due to concerns over exclusion…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There are plenty of voices — and data — that amplify a trend of declining confidence in democracy among Americans today. At PACE, we are encouraged by the efforts we see making…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United States is being buffeted by three staggering events, any one of which would be enough to destabilize our society: a fast-spreading pandemic, a severe economic recession caused by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The hidden driver of low youth turnout isn’t a lack of political interest or motivation, Holbein and Hillygus write. It’s that the act of voting is “costly.” Citizens have to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Colombia is the world’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders, a report published on Monday by Global Witness, an international human rights group, highlighted. For the second year in a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For years leading up to the 2016 US Presidential election, I began to notice a growing sense of mistrust in many of our democratic institutions. Dinner table discussions, visits, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Karin Brandt is the Co-Founder and CEO of coUrbanize, a platform that helps communities and urban developers build better cities, together. This interview is part of the Aspen Institute Center…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s may have been one period in time, but battles that resulted from that era are still going on. Monuments of major figures…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With nearly a third of the world’s population lacking steady access to adequate food, it’s no secret that our food systems are failing. As diet-related diseases skyrocket, global temperatures rise, and ecosystem…