This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The current refugee crisis represents a man-made disaster, the result of ongoing internal conflicts, especially in Afghanistan, Syria, and South Sudan. More than half of the 22.5 million refugees hail…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I’ve been frustrated for 20 years watching children be forced, based on ZIP code, based on parents’ income, based on the parents’ parents’ ZIP code and income, not be able…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Trump and countless Republicans ran on fixing our immigration system. There is no shortage of ideas on how to get the job done: build a wall; build fences; use…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The severity of the world’s fastest-growing refugee crisis becomes even clearer when viewed from space. An estimated 624,000 Rohingya refugees, a Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. De’Janae Simpson flits around the hundreds of folks gathered at Eagle Church in Whitestown with nervous energy. It’s not the first time this 17-year-old has addressed so many people, but she…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cambodia’s military chief has vowed to “smash the teeth” of anyone who does not support Prime Minister Hun Sen, who said it would be worth sacrificing 200 lives to stay in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today the buzz around life skills education for girls is at an all-time high. Policy and civil society actors — from United Nations agencies to grassroots community-based organizations — have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Four years ago, the UCLA Civil Rights Project issued a chilling report, showing that New York had the most segregated schools in the country. Anyone willing to look already knew our schools were…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The systematic exclusion of the Rohingya can be traced back through the history of Myanmar (formerly Burma). It is always difficult to say exactly where the conflict begins, but in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The death penalty should be abolished because it violates basic human rights. More so, it relies on a system fraught with error, discriminates based on race and socio-economic status, takes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One in three black men can expect to spend time in prison in their lifetime and Hispanic men are almost four times as likely to go to prison at some…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Host country President Alassane Ouattara called discussions “constructive” during the closing ceremony, and said that conversations extended beyond a donor-recipient tone, and leaned more towards a collaborative effort to build…