This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Does civil society address questions of values in ways that government and business cannot? This question makes sense if we presuppose limits on the values government and business can express.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When people think of “philanthropists,” they often think of celebrities or the ultrawealthy—people with private planes who make million-dollar donations and attend galas. But the truth is that anyone can be a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As communication consultants, we’re often brought in to help the leadership of colleges and universities navigate some of their biggest challenges. More and more, that means issues involving diversity, equity…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “We have authority by martial law to shoot looters,” Captain James Scott of the New Orleans Police department, or NOPD, told more than two dozen officers just days after Hurricane…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Colleges and universities lost about 191,500 transfer students in the 2020-21 academic year — representing a loss almost three times greater than the previous year’s decline of 69,300 students, according to new data…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 1921, General Motors engineers discovered that tetraethyl lead could make internal combustion engines run more smoothly and reduce engine knock. For the next 100 years, the toxic additive in automobile…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in harsh effects across European economies, and uncertainty persists even as vaccination campaigns have picked up speed. EU governments’ prompt investments in historically large job…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hurricane Ida has battered one of the poorest regions of the country, driving floodwaters into neighborhoods along the Gulf Coast and those along the Mississippi River in Louisiana. Its winds…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We are collectively failing to conserve the world’s biodiversity and to mobilize natural solutions to help curb global warming. A new study carried out by the Nature Map Consortium, shows…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Center for Effective Philanthropy’s latest research report, Persevering Through Crisis: The State of Nonprofits, provides further evidence of the devastating impact of 2020 on nonprofits — and how the crises of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 has brought into glaring focus the health perils people living without basic access to water and other life-saving necessities face not just during a pandemic, but every single day.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Zolgensma – which treats spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disease that damages nerve cells, leading to muscle decay – is currently the most expensive drug in the world. A…