This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The holidays are behind us, as is a particularly tough year in terms of major natural disasters, including several devastating hurricanes that afflicted communities right here in the U.S. Disasters…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Although white and black people use weed at nearly identical rates, black people are nearly four times as likely to be arrested for possession, as Fast Company reported. Even in states where…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Founded by Shannon May and Jay Kimmelman in 2007, Bridge International Academies aims to bring affordable, high-quality private school education to some of the poorest students in the world. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Economic progress has brought much growth and prosperity to Asia in the past decade, but with that progress, comes a growing disparity between the rich and the poor. Population growth,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the displaced people in camps scattered across northeast Nigeria, protection often ends at the compound gate. Armed groups operate in these areas, waiting to attack the vulnerable when they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The debate over the use of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, in food production, contains many sides and perspectives — all argued passionately by their advocates. With a food-secure future…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our friend Pavel Luksha, founder Global Education Futures and professor at Moscow School of Management, has a new report out on what graduates should know and be able to do. Skills of the Future: How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In West Africa where the percentage of women in poverty is growing with the expanding population, new technologies and crop varieties developed by the region’s leading scientists and researchers bring…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our current tumultuous political and social environment speaks volumes about how our country continues to struggle, and resists becoming a truly diverse society. There have been so many situations that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the George W. Bush administration, the federal government has doled out millions of dollars with the promise to expedite access to broadband service in remote parts of the country. President…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Domiz refugee camp is nestled between the cities of Mosul and Duhuk in the Kurdish Region of northern Iraq. The camp was opened in 2012 to house around 2,000 refugees,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s the first day of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, which means that Oxfam is releasing its annual shame-the-rich report. I’ve been rude about this report in the past, because I don’t believe…