This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We’ve spent much of the last eight years trying to answer a simple question: what are the world’s biggest and most urgent problems? We wanted to have a positive impact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Just as reporters should be committed to objective journalism, behavioral scientists have the professional and moral obligation to conduct fair, unbiased research and analysis. In the health services industry, research…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been a nightmare for many Americans as they struggle through multi-step registration and appointment systems. The federal government had envisioned states using one national vaccine…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted every aspect of life around the globe and exacerbated perennial challenges such as entrenched poverty, hunger, lack of access to health care and racial inequality. In…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The UK has now secured 400 million doses of various COVID-19 vaccines, six times its total population. It’s already vaccinated almost 9 million people. But meanwhile just one of the 29 poorest countries in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The rapid spread of COVID-19 in 2020 disrupted field research and environmental monitoring efforts worldwide. Travel restrictions and social distancing forced scientists to cancel studies or pause their work for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Survivors of domestic violence face mounting precarity as the COVID-19 and eviction crises collide and create fractures in community and household stability. Disasters and emergencies increase frequency and severity of abuse, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Prisons have had 10 months to take measures to reduce their populations and save lives amidst the ongoing pandemic. Yet our comparison of 13 states’ parole grant rates from 2019…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 2 million miles of natural gas pipelines run throughout the United States. In Appalachia, they spread like spaghetti across the region. Many of these lines were built in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Within a year of the first reported case of COVID-19, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine became the first fully-tested immunization to be approved for emergency use against the deadly virus. The lightning-speed development and approval…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Emily Griffith, founder and CEO of the health food company Lil Bucks, found herself in a tough spot in mid-2020. “I was in the valley of death,” she shared, referring…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. America’s skills gap has been widely discussed. The friction between postsecondary institutions failing to properly prepare job seekers and unrealistic employer expectations has led to seven million unfilled openings. Not…