This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Don’t look now, but today’s “traditional” American household has a decidedly different look. The 1950s Beaver Cleaver family model of a married couple, two kids, and a white picket fence…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The current opioid epidemic is a complex problem reflecting the many challenges inherent in our healthcare system. Opioids* are a class of prescription medications providing significant benefits to patients with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “We have authority by martial law to shoot looters,” Captain James Scott of the New Orleans Police department, or NOPD, told more than two dozen officers just days after Hurricane…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in harsh effects across European economies, and uncertainty persists even as vaccination campaigns have picked up speed. EU governments’ prompt investments in historically large job…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hurricane Ida has battered one of the poorest regions of the country, driving floodwaters into neighborhoods along the Gulf Coast and those along the Mississippi River in Louisiana. Its winds…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 has brought into glaring focus the health perils people living without basic access to water and other life-saving necessities face not just during a pandemic, but every single day.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Zolgensma – which treats spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disease that damages nerve cells, leading to muscle decay – is currently the most expensive drug in the world. A…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea New research shows that computational modeling can predict how bilingual stroke patients will respond to language…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Social and emotional learning (SEL) programs that develop soft skills such as self-management, relationship skills, responsible decision making, and self-awareness are an important key to establishing the type of healthy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many communities face a crisis stemming from widespread substance misuse, including a dramatic increase in the misuse of opioid painkillers and illicit opioids in the past two decades. In response,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public transportation is an affordable mobility option for residents of communities nationwide, but it’s too frequently underfunded. This results in low-quality service and low ridership. It also forces people with low incomes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even in good economic times, many adults in the United States have trouble finding jobs that pay enough to support their families. Wages for those without a college degree, for…