This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sarah Lynch, Binghamton University, State University of New York and Danielle Mayer, Thomas Jefferson University The new year has brought the deadliest weeks of the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic thus far,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After a disaster strikes, relief can’t come soon enough for affected families. Immediate aid is generally provided by first responders, who are soon followed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Yosemite. Big Sur. The Grand Canyon. When one thinks “wilderness” in the United States, the mind often goes to the American frontier or federal lands in the West. But for…
On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani interviews Jeff Huckaby, President of Grimmway Farms and recently awarded Organic Farmer of the Year, and Laura Batcha, CEO and Executive Director of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The surge-upon-surge of COVID-19 cases in the United States has again focused attention on scarcity of lifesaving medical resources—hospital beds, ICU equipment, ventilators, oxygen, medications, and hospital staff. With nearly 124,000…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every great organization is made up of people with two distinct ways of knowing. Following the famous Isaiah Berlin essay, “The Hedgehog and the Fox” (1953), there are foxes, who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across our work at the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy (CSP), we often see first-hand how difficult it can be for different scientific disciplines to collaborate. While science has made so much progress in many areas, societal advancement could go…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the U.S. grapples with the effort to distribute massive quantities of vaccine, the fundamental challenge is the more delicate task of persuading tens of millions of others it is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Prisons have been ravaged by the virus. At least 343,000 people in state and federal facilities around the country have tested positive as of early January, according to reporting by The Marshall…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 has not been an equal opportunity pandemic. It has impacted Latinx, Black, and Indigenous communities; immigrants, older adults, and the uninsured more profoundly than the general population. At the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite Covid-19 surges in Europe, the United States of America’s extraordinary death toll remains among the worst in the developed world. As of January 9, 2021, nearly 373,000 people have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While enrollment in higher education overall fell 2.5 percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than…