Playing with my children on a beach on Hatteras Island, a barrier island off the coast of North Carolina, I struck up a conversation with a man walking his dog.…
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Technology has been central to the shifts we have made to weather the pandemic: Work, school, and social gatherings moved online virtually overnight, and organizations had to ensure they too…
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For far too long, the medical sciences have treated men and women as interchangeable subjects, favoring men’s health for funding and the male body for study. This approach creates a…
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Click here for more.They called it The Lot. For years, Arica Gonzalez and her neighbors passed it often in their Baltimore, Maryland, neighborhood, the once-vacant property where waist-high grass, frequent illegal dumping, and…
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The past two years have been inundated with media buzz about critical race theory, book banning and anti-transgender legislation surrounding athletics and restrooms, among other hot-button topics. With each article and soundbite, a wave of emotional…
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More than a year after the police killing of George Floyd and the avalanche of donations toward racial equity initiatives that followed, the actual gift amounts and their destinations remain…
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Click here for more.Over the last 15 years Melanie and Richard Lundquist have channeled more than US$400 million of their philanthropic dollars toward education and democracy building, health care, and environmental initiatives. They…
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Click here for more.My family, like many others is an immigrant family and we are celebrating 50 years since we immigrated to the United States. In my case, my sister and I came…
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Click here for more.What if a city could help stop homelessness before it happened? Some cities are using predictive analytics and other strategies to identify residents who are at risk. Ensuring residents stay…
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As world leaders gathered in Paris to negotiate a new climate agreement in December 2015, more than 600,000 people in 175 countries marched in support of the process. Meanwhile, the…
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Even when the world was not in crisis, the economic effects of globalization within the United States and elsewhere have not been uniform. The less skilled, especially in the manufacturing sector,…
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Click here for more.In his great history of the Bolshevik revolution, A People’s Tragedy, Orlando Figes observed how one of the key conditions for the collapse of czarist Russia was a sevenfold increase in…