This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Biden administration anticipates that 65,000 Afghan evacuees will have entered the United States by the end of September, with an additional 30,000 expected over the next 12 months. Many have suffered…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gabby Petito’s disappearance immediately captured our collective attention. The social platforms—from Tiktok to Twitter—were supplying hour-by-hour information with theories, stories, data, awareness campaigns, and investigative updates. TV news followed. We could not divert our eyes, which is so important when…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly two million adults were incarcerated across the country, according to the 2020 Decennial Census. The latest figures show a 13% drop in the total number of incarcerated people, or…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Debates over mass incarceration emphasize policing, bail, and sentencing reform, but give little attention to indigent defense. This omission seems surprising, given that interactions with government-provided counsel critically shape the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Environmental justice is not a single-issue movement – it is impossible for it to be, due to the multiple environmental, social, racial and economic, climate and health issues faced by and in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2016, University of California professors Julie Sze and Lindsey Dillon published a paper in which they put “environmental justice literature in conversation with critiques of anti-Black police violence, as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even as protesters called for change in cities across America last year, a massive experiment was underway that reshaped every corner of the criminal justice system. Some police agencies scaled…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Behavioral health issues may finally be starting to get the attention they have long deserved from the philanthropic community. For too long, substance use and mental health have comprised only a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new study shows just how much of a psychological toll the murder of George Floyd took on people in America, particularly among Black Americans. Following the murder of Floyd,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At its peak in 2020, COVID-19-related school closures affected more than 1 billion learners around the world. Girls’ education advocates feared the worst: Prolonged school closures and lockdowns would harm girls’…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Metropolitan regions in the United States suffer from high levels of economic and racial segregation, partly as a result of racially discriminatory and exclusionary decisions made by local governments to prevent affordable housing construction…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. So far, and especially in the case of Turkey, support for refugees has focused on making them fit more easily into host country economies. But, with many Syrian refugees now…