This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To empower women and girls in the patriarchal Maasai society in Kenya, young men must become part of the conversation about gender equality and girls’ education and advocate for girls’…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From August 2017 to January 2018, an estimated 650,000 Rohingyas, out of a population of a million, fled from Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh to escape a campaign of arson, rape,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Yet in New York City, as in districts across the country, there is a glaring disconnect between many students’ race or ethnicity and their teachers’: While 83 percent of New…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What can we expect at the beginning of 2018? Is the death penalty almost gone, or will the president’s support rejuvenate it? To answer those questions, there will be four…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Handshake is developing a new online platform stored securely on the blockchain to help ensure safe and just working conditions for the some 150 million migrant workers worldwide. We don’t want to make any assumptions about this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I don’t feel normal. I’m always tired, no matter how much sleep I get. Last week, I nodded off at a meeting — even though I was outside and standing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One in every 113 people on the planet is now a refugee. Around the world, someone is displaced every three seconds, forced from their homes by violence, war and persecution.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. That international borders limit migration is obvious. But why should provincial or state borders prevent people from moving within a country? After all, most countries do not impose restrictions on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There are wide, stubborn economic gaps between black and white households in the U.S. Why? Many factors are at work, of course, including lower rates of upward mobility, discrimination in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New York’s prison system just banned something unusual from the outside: fresh fruits and veggies. As of January 2018, care packages sent to some inmates must come through private companies…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We have more jobs in the U.S. than we have people to fill them. This is what economists mean by full employment and it should be a cause for celebration. When…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Each year, the U.S. spends nearly $40 billion on prisons. Yet the return on investment is not good as nearly 80 percent of released prisoners are rearrested within five years.…