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Women who gave birth during the COVID pandemic filled significantly more opioid prescriptions, and at higher strength, for postpartum pain.

Discounting South Asian countries’ debt in exchange for investment in conservation could protect biodiversity while promoting prosperity.

Generative AI, those astonishingly powerful language- and image-generating tools taking the world by storm, come at a price: a big carbon footprint. But not all AIs are equally dirty.

When U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman visited his childhood home in Harlem’s East River Houses last winter, he was struck by a piece of graffiti at the entrance. The tag read, simply, “Help.”…

For years, harmful anti-immigrant, anti-Black, and anti-Indigenous narratives have proliferated public discourse from online forums to Congressional legislatures. The lives of millions of immigrants and people of color are at…

Around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This backsliding on democracy and “creeping authoritarianism,” as the U.S. State Department puts it, is often supported by the same industries…

Mental health is an essential intervention to address violence and trauma at the individual, interpersonal, and systemic levels.

APEN’s Christine Cordero discusses the groups history and climate funders and organizers can create a healthier world by centering the wisdom of Asian immigrant refugee peoples.   In the previous entry in…

In 787 communities served by the United States’ largest utilities, 17% of households struggle to afford basic water services, an analysis finds.

Without purposeful guidance on choosing the right classes or taking advantage of available resources, students can easily get lost and end up “making decisions that don’t get them to a degree,” said Josh Wyner, who leads higher education programs at The Aspen Institute.

Detention facilities run by tribal nations or the Bureau of Indian Affairs are often left out of research, making the tribal prisoner population one of the most vulnerable in the country.