This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During his fourth year inside Fulton County, Georgia’s correctional system, Larry Jackson became the subject of an experiment in prison education. The facility needed more medical help, so it started training…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is not enough to say that you are not racist. Doing your work means a constant vigilance and correction of your own racist beliefs and actions. Doing your work…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There is a lot of speculation right now about what is going on in rural America. The perspectives vary wildly from the Hunger Games to the Hallmark Channel—abject poverty and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past decade, an average of 21.5 million people annually have been forced to move due to the impacts of extreme weather. That’s three times as many people as have been affected by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For more than half a century, scientists have been calling on world leaders to mitigate climate change and protect the planet by stopping greenhouse gas emissions. But this guidance has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After nearly a decade of inspiring children to eat healthily, the California-based nonprofit Food Literacy Center is building a zero net energy cooking school. It will be ready just in time for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new BJS report shows that U.S. jails reduced their populations by 25% in the first few months of the pandemic. But even then, the U.S. was still putting more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Why should this so-called ‘she-cession’ alarm us all? Because the resilience and growth of economies depend on women’s workforce participation. Because women’s earnings are essential for many families’ economic security. Because if women participated…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There isn’t a single quick fix to ending gender-based violence, and addressing its root causes can take time. Listening and believing survivors, discussing gender roles early on, making services for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The truth is that the shooting of 8 people, including 6 Asian women, is yet another tragic reminder of the life-threatening consequences that communities — and Black, Indigenous, People of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The recent success of digitally-coordinated protest movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo has sparked a wave of interest in the potential for technology to transform the ways in which…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Recent protests calling for radical changes to American policing have brought much-needed attention to the systemic racism within our criminal justice system. This extends beyond policing, of course: Systemic racism…