This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The impact of the pandemic on world GDP growth is massive. The COVID-19 global recession is the deepest since the end of World War II (Figure 1). The global economy contracted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While 2020 may reluctantly be recalled as one of the most traumatic years in history for many individuals, trauma is, unfortunately, not new. A 2015 report from the National Child…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many nonprofits faced a glaring reality when the pandemic of 2020 arrived. That they were grossly ill-prepared for what was ahead. In so many cases, their digital infrastructure was either…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Record-breaking fires over the past decade suggest the western U.S. has entered a new era of megafires. Fire itself is not the problem – it has been characteristic of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan proposes to spend US$16 billion plugging old oil and gas wells and cleaning up abandoned mines. But there’s no authoritative measure of how many of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change is upending people’s lives around the world, but when droughts, floods or sea level rise force them to leave their countries, people often find closed borders and little…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At 30 years old, Riziki Karisa is already the mother of 10 children; her youngest arrived just last spring. Living in a remote area of Kilifi County in coastal Kenya,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Although the U.S. makes up only 5% of the world’s population, it has 25% of the world’s prison population. For decades, mass incarceration has affected millions of individuals, families, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Most Americans take access to clean drinking water for granted. Most Americans — but not all. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2018 National Center for Environmental Assessment study, people living…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Julia Gillard served as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia and is the chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London. While serving as Prime Minister,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Work requirements associated with federal assistance programs have drawn more attention since the administration’s 2018 executive order calling for federal agencies to add or strengthen such policies. Although work requirements…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power Four hundred…