This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Although navigating school during a global pandemic presented new challenges for almost all K-12 staff nationwide, some educators, like Jeffrey Wright of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, faced an additional difficulty that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For years, a patchwork of afterschool programs in Dallas have provided care for thousands of children and reassurance to working parents their kids are in a safe place for the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To help address the many impacts of the pandemic in Nepal, The McConnell Foundation made a grant to benefit four organizations working on different fronts. Since the beginning of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 long-haulers, even those with mild infections of the virus, experience significant decline in kidney function, according to a deep dive into federal health data. The findings add to concerns…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This year, 9/11 holds a dual significance for Americans across the country. It not only marks the 20th anniversary of the tragic events and lives lost since Sept. 11, 2001,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York resulted in the loss of 2,753 people in the Twin Towers and surrounding area. After the attack, more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Wildfires are no longer local affairs. Smoke from California has colored sunsets in New York, Australian bushfires have polluted Santiago, Chile, and people in Vancouver have inhaled the burnt remnants of Siberian forests.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last month, 15 civil rights, business, and education advocacy organizations sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona urging the department to share its plans for how states will be expected to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The rise of coronavirus variants has highlighted the huge influence evolutionary biology has on daily life. But how mutations, random chance and natural selection produce variants is a complicated process,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Structural barriers have created a deeply unequal healthcare system that blocks access to abortion care, especially for BIPoC, poor and transgender people. Over 60% of people seeking abortions identify as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Priti Krishtel is a health justice lawyer who has spent nearly two decades exposing structural inequities that limit access to medicines and vaccines across the Global South and the United…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A February 2021 survey of about 1,300 New York City youth, aged 14-24, found that only 42 percent who sought mental health support received it. Across the city, 35 percent of young…