This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A Sunday night children’s program and a living nativity scene seemed like really good ways for Southview Community Church (SCC) to meet its primary mission of reaching people who don’t attend church.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Families that adopt troubled or high-needs foster kids in Colorado receive inconsistent and often meager financial support from a state program that lacks sufficient oversight, the state’s child protection ombudsman said in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the most damning features of the U.S. criminal justice system is its vast racial inequity. Black people in this country are imprisoned at more than 5 times the…
Amnesty International says the EU is complicit in the abuse of refugees in Libya. The Mediterranean refugee crisis, once the top story on every channel, has fallen out of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After months of explaining what happened during the 2016 election to stunned supporters on her book tour, Hillary Clinton finally got to talk about the future, one in which women…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For several days in late November and early December, the sound of banging pots and pans from protests mixed with gunfire in the streets of Tegucigalpa, Honduras’ capital. Burning tires…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In researching her recent book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote, Johanna Neuman dug through archives and discovered that the decades-long battle to pass the 19th…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last year, prospects were looking good for a bipartisan effort in Congress to overhaul federal sentencing. But after long and careful negotiations, one senator almost single-handedly torpedoed the measure: the…
In 2000, I graduated from Central High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Central opened in 1979 after a federal court order forced the mostly segregated high schools in the Tuscaloosa City…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Obstetric fistulas are injuries that most often occur during childbirth, when a baby gets stuck in the birth canal, causing a hole to develop between the mother’s vagina, and her…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In every humanitarian crisis, affected communities need information immediately about how to access vital aid services or reconnect with family members. At the same time, they require established feedback mechanisms…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Colorado is leading the way in terms of creating legislation to address human trafficking. A new state law – driven by Attorney General Coffman – allows authorities to use wiretaps in sex…