This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The 74 details the scene from March For Our Lives this past Saturday, with survivors from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting standing out as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Prison Policy Initiative takes a look at a Brookings report that shows how the criminal justice system disproportionally targets economically disadvantaged people, while pointing out…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Meet Garen Wintemute. ER doctor. Researcher. The NRA’s worst nightmare. The 66 year-old spent months healing victims of the deadly Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia right out of medical residency…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One month ago, Diana Haneski was hiding in an equipment closet at Stoneman Douglas High School. She’s the school’s media specialist, and when the lockdown was announced she herded students…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Prevention is key to ending the rash of school shootings in America, House Democrats and witnesses said Tuesday, in sharp contrast to Republican calls to arm teachers and harden schools.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As outrage over the Parkland school shooting persists, lawmakers are looking for actual policy solutions. The Trump administration and its supporters are latching onto school discipline reform as the solution. But by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. States play a role in ensuring school safety, managing resources, and providing training, technical assistance, and guidance to local schools. As both the National Governors Association and the Department of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There’s no such thing as the U.S. criminal justice system. There are, instead, thousands of counties across the country, each with their own systems, made up of a diffuse network…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Is there a face on Mars?” a prisoner wants to know. He is standing in the doorway to my office, beaming like a child. After watching a program on the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On March 9, the Republican governor of Florida, Rick Scott, did something that only weeks ago seemed impossible: He signed a bipartisan bill limiting access to guns. What we have witnessed in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After seven years of war in Syria, we hear more and more that the general public is becoming desensitized to the conflict. As horrible as the news reports are, the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At least 99 children are among those slain following government-led bombardments of eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Syria’s capital city of Damascus, where more than 460 people died in February. The attacks…