This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2017 was a watershed year for gender and human rights … sort of. Landmark legislation aimed to control the migration and advancement of some of the world’s poorest peoples, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Faithful patriots in this country who are concerned by the attacks on the free exercise of religion in America should also be concerned by the similar attacks on liberty echoing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women’s economic empowerment is often touted as the magic bullet — one that can respond to and mitigate violence by increasing the bargaining power women have within their households, communities,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On two recent episodes of popular radio show and podcast This American Life, hosts Ira Glass and Miki Meek explored a demographic shift in Albertville, Alabama, a rural city that experienced a huge influx…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I am a software engineer at Google. I teach with Citizen Schools because, as a woman in a male-dominated field, I know personally just how important education is to empowering…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Have you ever tried having a conversation with someone on campus, when they hesitantly and ever-so-awkwardly start signing to you? Or have you ever asked another student a question and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By next fall, millions of K-8 students in California schools may be learning from history textbooks that astronaut Sally Ride was a lesbian, Walt Whitman was gay, and a Gold…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When members of Congress battled over the budget, some threatened to block funding unless Congress provided amnesty to illegal alien Dreamers who benefited from President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Does the news cycle drive philanthropy? Giving Compass — founded to provide learning resources to donors who want to give with greater impact — was only a few months old…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Formal U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has not spawned the intense violence from the Arab and Muslim street that was commonly predicted. But the question remains whether, as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “I’ve personally spent only one night in jail,” Frank Gehry confessed. “I didn’t like it very much.” Gehry, 88, who has been described as our greatest living architect, said he…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Mississippi fight against integration and civil rights was the most organized, defiant, and violent of anywhere in the country. But until 2011, civil rights history was not part of…