This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck — and with it came public health measures including stay-at-home orders — women’s rights organizations (WROs) the world over were quick to sound the alarm:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By one estimate, as many people experienced serious psychological distress in just the first month of the pandemic as during the entire year before it began. Elevated rates of anxiety and depression…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ahead of next week’s G7 Summit in the UK, we call on Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau to act on his government’s stated commitment to share vaccines with COVAX — the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka announced that she would withdraw from the French Open after she was fined and threatened with being disqualified for not speaking to media during the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. California, once a national role model for slowing the coronavirus’s spread, has seen record numbers of infections, hospitalizations and deaths in recent days. The surge follows the reopening of many…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By 2050, experts predict that 10 million people will die of antibiotic-resistant infections—surpassing deaths from cancer. Coming out of the pandemic it’s more critical than ever to address this growing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the last few months, the world has changed, and all of us with it. The myriad issues philanthropy has spent decades trying to address on many fronts, and in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic buckled the country for many weeks. We may have passed the peak, but are still struggling with rising infection rates in many parts…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Kyla Thomas, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences With more than 30 million people infected and 550,000 dead, the U.S. is among the nations hardest hit by the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tropical Cyclone Idai struck the southeast coast of Mozambique. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reported that 1.85 million people needed assistance. 146,000 people were internally displaced, and Mozambique scrambled to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new analysis of drinking water systems shows communities in five Midwest states have legal but potentially worrying levels of nitrates. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) found nitrate levels in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 1942, a 17-year-old transgender girl named Lane visited a doctor in her Missouri hometown with her parents. Lane had known that she was a girl from a very young…