This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Moath al-Alwi was captured by Pakistani forces near the Afghanistan border in December 2001 and given over to the United States military. A Yemeni national, al-Alwi has said he was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public health officials and outside experts warned the federal government for years before the coronavirus pandemic that the US was not focusing enough on public health prevention. They were proven right. Now…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Dr. Daryl Ward emphasizes the importance of building deep, diverse relationships in the art world to seek and understand a variety of opinions. • This advice…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Slowing the pace of climate change, increasing access to health care and comprehensively covering the news are very different but worthy goals with some things in common. One is gridlock.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Digital systems like mobile phones and networked computers make it ever easier to ask for money and to give it – possibly even too easy, as the Scrooge-like feeling I…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of child care for families with young children, but it has also exposed the child care crisis that existed long before March 2020. Early childhood…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea States’ financial investments in public benefit programs for low-income families are associated with less child abuse…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On Sunday Oct. 28, 2018 — one day after the deadliest day in American Jewish history — I mourned with members of Congregation Dor Hadash. The Pittsburgh Reconstructionist congregation met…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In February 2017, when Keia Blount was preparing to be released after serving a five-year prison term at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, she had no idea where…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Americans are quitting their jobs in record numbers. This phenomenon has been dubbed the Great Resignation and created significant shortages of workers for businesses. To understand and address this issue, attention might…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hoping to step up the federal government’s response to long-standing water issues facing Native American communities, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released an “action plan” earlier this month that will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A look at 48,000 conventional monuments in the United States reveals trends in who or what gets memorialized with a statue and who or what does not. In October 2021,…