This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • E4E is a teacher-led organization that spans six chapters across the country to provide a space for teachers to have a voice in addressing issues that directly…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to a June 2017 poll, Americans agree by a 60-to-39 margin that the federal government bears a responsibility to ensure health care for all Americans; 33% said that they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Roughly 52 percent of the world remains offline. With the internet shouldering more of the global economy — as well as education, agriculture, healthcare, and government services — the world’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By 2050, the world’s population is expected to rise to over 9 billion, with 2 billion people above the age of 60. Governments have agreed on a very ambitious set…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The plight of displaced people, especially Syrian refugees, has been largely ignored by the mass media since this human rights tragedy dominated news headlines during the fall of 2015. Yet this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Closed borders, racism, xenophobic attacks, rejected asylum applications, poverty and lengthy waits. These experiences are what many refugees and migrants in Greece say defined 2017 for them. More than 60,000…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2017 was the year for environmental campaigns, both in North America and abroad. Broad coalitions like the We Are Still In and March for Science signaled, amid loosening of environmental…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The release of the Performance of Australian Aid report in May showed the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was nearing an important target set by Julie Bishop as one her first orders of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s easy to be skeptical of China’s overseas aid as a gambit to control smaller countries. The Chinese 4-year-old, $900 billion belt-and-road initiative aimed at building public infrastructure all over Asia effectively widens…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Beyond the numbers, our DACA youth are teachers, nurses, firefighters, non-profit workers, and the laborers building the infrastructure and roads that keep society running. When advocates and allies of Dreamers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The drama continues with two of the four nuclear power reactors being built in the U.S. today. On Thursday, the Georgia Public Service Commission voted on measures to continue financing and building…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the first time in the 25-year history of international climate negotiations, the 197 member countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have reached an agreement…