North America

The words “Indigenous feminism” can be triggering in Indigenous communities. I’ve read op-eds in the Navajo Times saying “feminism is against our culture,” and when I do workshops on the…

“Our findings suggest that diversity training as it is currently practiced is unlikely to change police behavior.”…

Care for people who have had a miscarriage may be compromised in states that restrict abortions, a new study shows.

The statistics are well known: only 35 percent of students are reading proficiently by grade 4, and NAEP reading scores are the lowest in decades. …

Five social impact trends and opportunities that we hope will define the year ahead.

If you’re used to giving with restrictions, how can you move towards a more unrestricted model? Here we outline how.

A study of medical costs and income losses found that those who can least afford to pay for health care and miss out on their paychecks rack up the biggest bills.

Even after January’s storms, California faces a water-scarce future. An economist and an engineer propose a way to test higher water prices as a conservation strategy without hurting low-income users.

Jurors can perceive events in a video in different ways – one of which depends on how the evidence is presented in court, a media scholar explains.

On his first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order acknowledging the toll of structural racism in the United States and initiating a data-driven approach to advancing racial equity. As part of…

Data can be a powerful tool for education improvement, but school systems need help to ensure that educators and administrators have access to timely, accurate, and actionable data, as well as the analytical skills needed to leverage it in meaningful ways.