This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From rising temperatures to unprecedented weather events, the increasingly apparent impacts of climate change have exposed longstanding infrastructure gaps and prompted new urgency to addressing them. Many of these gaps…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world may soon have more voice assistants than people—yet another indicator of the rapid, large-scale adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across many fields. The benefits of AI are significant:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. PND spoke with Kavitha Mediratta, founding executive director of Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity, a ten-year, $60 million initiative launched by Atlantic Philanthropies, about that question and what her program is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ever talked to a precocious elementary schooler? Then you know all about collective nouns. What do you call more than one dog? A pack! A group of cattle? A herd!…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Decades of political debate and conversation have been devoted to addressing the many flaws of our capitalist system, including its tendencies to promote material gain as a central value, exacerbate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rural women have less access to maternity and childbirth services, a trend only made worse by the coronavirus pandemic and one that contributes to higher mother and child mortality rates…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “We stopped doing heads.” It was the second time I’d heard a medical examiner say this while I was studying how the roles of medical examiners and coroners have changed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A little over 100 years ago, the U.S. Congress ratified the 19th amendment, which ruled that women could not be denied the right to vote because of their sex. This…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2021 was billed as a “super year” for food, with the UN Food Systems Summit, the biodiversity convention, COP26 in Glasgow and the Nutrition for Growth Summit shining a light…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public sexual harassment is an issue in every society. But misogyny and sexual harassment in public has been so normalised that often bringing up the issue of behaviour such as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For more than half a century, the global food system operated with a singular mantra: Produce more food. At the time of the Green Revolution in the 1950s, much of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many communities have faced unprecedented challenges. No one understands these challenges better than local residents, but they’re often left out of the decisionmaking process. This is particularly true in disinvested…