This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last year, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings collaborated with the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) to survey 125 organizations working on girls’ education to answer those…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Transgender students have been in the spotlight this year – from President Trump’s decision to rescind rules aimed at protecting them, to the Texas legislature battling over a bathroom bill.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite similar crime rates, the US incarceration rate is more than five times that of comparable countries. Out of every 100,000 Americans, 693 are in prison—a number that has multiplied in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Contrary to economic arguments against refugee resettlement, recent research suggests refugees generate positive economic benefits for their host countries. Recent studies—by the Open Political Economy Network and the Tent Foundation,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The story we tell ourselves about the refugee crisis is very different from the reality. A new visualization shows the flow of refugees around the world from 2000 to 2015,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Malmo, Sweden, a new building will serve as a place for local residents to meet refugees–and potentially give them work. At the height of the European refugee crisis in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The justices unanimously limited the federal government’s power to strip immigrants of their hard-won status. The U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the scope under which the federal government can strip naturalized…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a rare move, major religious leaders ― from Pope Francis to the Dalai Lama ― issued a joint appeal Wednesday asking people to follow a simple bit of advice:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. LGBTQ people— especially LGBTQ people of color and trans people—are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system. Biased policing and aggressive sentencing make LGBTQ people more likely to face time…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From the editors of Nonprofit Quarterly: The following mini–case study is part of a series of studies submitted as part of the graduate course “The Nonprofit Sector: Concepts and Theories,”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At its annual meeting, the Southern Baptist Convention initially declined to consider a statement of its opposition to the alt-right. Leaders from the evangelical denomination were divided over a resolution…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “I am writing to tell you that I am gay and I am a Christian.” That was the opening line of the letter Richard Grenell, a former United Nations official,…