This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Each year, tens of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children make dangerous journeys around the globe on their own to arrive at the southern border of the United States, seeking safety. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since Asian Americans first began to immigrate to the United States almost two centuries ago, we have been framed as perpetual foreigners. Racist portrayals in film and television, references to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This year, sitting out legislative policy fights is just not an option. Enter the question of lobbying and some timely new research from academics at George Mason University and the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Eighty-five years ago, on April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order allocating US$10 million for “Emergency Conservation Work.” This step launched one of the New Deal’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I grew up in a white, middle class section of Worcester, Mass. My friends all looked the same. Their parents all looked the same. Even my extended social network was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mass incarceration has contributed to significant, harmful, and lasting racial and class disparities in America’s federal and state prisons. In 2017, for example, Black people accounted for 12 percent of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The evacuation of more than 100,000 civilians from Afghanistan is over, and Afghan refugees have started arriving in the United States, at military bases in other countries, or elsewhere for asylum processing.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the vulnerable in the United States, the percentage of Americans in food-insecure households held steady in 2020 at 10.5%, figures released…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Most consumers don’t pay much attention to the packaging that their purchases come in, unless it’s hard to open or the item is really over-wrapped. But packaging accounts for about…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With record-breaking temperatures blanketing the country and no federal heat standard in place, workers find they have no choice but to walk out. As a heat dome blanketed Portland, Oregon…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Whether it’s a pandemic, climate disaster, or seeking new economic opportunities, humanity has been on the move since the earliest of times. In the United States, more than 40 million…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If the New Orleans region had invested more aggressively in disaster preparedness instead of disaster relief, the total cost of Hurricane Katrina could have been just $7 billion. That’s compared…