This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Capital punishment is the culmination of violence at both ends of society: the violence of the individual criminal, who is caught in a cycle of violence and whose life ends…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Crisis, conflict, social media, and ego are devastating communities across the country, and last week, we saw them lead to an unprecedented attack on our nation’s Capitol. This public display…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the aftermath of COVID-19, which exposed so many of the racial inequalities in our society, local and state governments cannot simply offer an inferior version of what came before.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the 1930s, as laws were passed to exclude Black people from generating wealth through homeownership, racist investor regulations were created for the same purpose, with the Securities and Exchange…
Giving Compass’ Take: • A report by the Forward Promise National Program Office describes how implicit and explicit biases against boys and young men of color held by members of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The year 2020 broke disaster records across the country in destructive and expensive ways. The Atlantic had so many hurricanes, meteorologists ran out of tropical storm names for only the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Roughly one-quarter of adults believe they are financially worse off now than at the beginning of the pandemic. However, not all generations have experienced the COVID-19 economic recession equally. In March and April,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Philanthropy has a role to play in rehabilitating our democracy, though it sits in an uneasy relationship with democracy. Depending on the form it takes, philanthropy can be a threat to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Nothing about us without us,” is commonly used by community activists when speaking about the changes they want to see in their communities. The idea is simple: those most affected…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Editor’s note: Ore Koren is a scholar of civil conflict and political violence. Before the November 2020 election, he wrote a story for The Conversation about the likelihood of election-related…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Thirty years of sustainable development discussions – and all the major drivers globally point in the direction of unsustainability. A transformation in direction of sustainability is more urgent than ever.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As Nebraska’s climate continues to shift, one riverside town wants to protect itself from another spring like 2019. But the process has been plagued by bureaucratic setbacks and legal woes:…