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Without art, I wouldn’t be where I am today. During distance learning, two of my grandparents passed away within a week. As a result, I fell into a depression that…

What would happen if a pandemic much worse than Covid hit? This is a question that’s been haunting me since the early days of 2020, when it wasn’t clear exactly…

Local officials in Tennessee, Illinois, New York, and Virginia are offering up hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to the National Football League’s Tennessee Titans, Chicago Bears, Buffalo Bills…

Research shows that accessible and affordable child care is both a lifeline for working families and a driver of growth across the entire U.S. economy. A functioning child care market…

As nonprofits, we play a critical role in taking care of the people in our communities, and voter engagement is an important piece of this. Not only does voter engagement…

The movement for reparations in the United States—a Black-led movement that began even before slavery’s end—is making unprecedented strides forward, and governments across the country are beginning to act. In…

Women living in high-cost rental areas are more likely to suffer hemorrhage, heart failure, and other life-threatening outcomes during labor and delivery, new research in New Jersey shows. Researchers found…

Back-to-back hurricanes left an unnerving scene on the Florida coast in November 2022: Several houses, and even swimming pools, were left dangling over the ocean as waves eroded the earth…

Lost amid dire predictions about a Republican takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections is the fact that more women of color were nominated in House primaries…

Who will tell the stories that shape our future? These days, in the United States, this is a matter of fierce disagreement. On one side, a multiracial majority of people…

A proposed measure in Switzerland would have made that country the first to ban medical and scientific experimentation on animals. It failed to pass in February 2022, with only 21%…

As big cities across the country recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, they are staring down some formidable challenges in their downtown commercial and office districts, as well as in their…