Imagine an elephant walking down 5th Avenue in New York City, crushing cabs under its enormous hooves as “hardened” New Yorkers run for their lives. A rather unusual image, is it not? With the exception of a mass breakout from the Bronx Zoo, this...
While physical infrastructure may not be the most riveting topic for a presidential debate or the campaign trail, the integrity of a nation’s bridges, roads, rails, electrical grids, dams, and canals is essential to any modern economy. Without thes...
After earning her Master of Science in Nursing at Vanderbilt University in 2016, Caitlyn White began her career as a nurse practitioner (NP) in Fort Worth, Texas. There, she worked with a group of nine pediatricians and neonatologists to oversee the ...
Amid calls to stay home during the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, Rodgers Mathebulo’s house was demolished, his belongings looted, and the small shack from which he sold fruit, sweets, and snacks flattened. Unfortunately, Mathebulo’s exper...
Amid calls to stay home during the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, Rodgers Mathebulo’s house was demolished, his belongings looted, and the small shack from which he sold fruit, sweets, and snacks flattened. Unfortunately, Mathebulo’s exper...
Flordelis dos Santos de Souza’s life sounds like something out of a daytime soap opera. The Brazilian gospel singer, who first rose to fame as a pop star, expanded her brand into philanthropy, hoping to run for office. On these credentials, de Souz...
Flordelis dos Santos de Souza’s life sounds like something out of a daytime soap opera. The Brazilian gospel singer, who first rose to fame as a pop star, expanded her brand into philanthropy, hoping to run for office. On these credentials, de Souz...
Beds are running out at Ek’Abana, a shelter for abandoned children nestled in Bukavu, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) South Kivu Province. In 2018, an Ek’Abana representative attributed the orphan- age’s dwind...
Beds are running out at Ek’Abana, a shelter for abandoned children nestled in Bukavu, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) South Kivu Province. In 2018, an Ek’Abana representative attributed the orphan- age’s dwind...
“Queer people exist in the rural South,” Annabeth Mellon told NBC News while describing her experience as a bisexual student in the Alabama public school system. “The rest of the world wants to forget about that fact, because [the South is] a ...
“Queer people exist in the rural South,” Annabeth Mellon told NBC News while describing her experience as a bisexual student in the Alabama public school system. “The rest of the world wants to forget about that fact, because [the South is] a ...
On a sleepy Monday night right after Christmas, a post surfaced in a Facebook group frequented by conservatives in the town of Parker, Colorado: “Every day in our group I’ll be posting the name and address of unelected, non-law enforcement office...
On a sleepy Monday night right after Christmas, a post surfaced in a Facebook group frequented by conservatives in the town of Parker, Colorado: “Every day in our group I’ll be posting the name and address of unelected, non-law enforcement office...
“Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” Today, US asylum policy is a far cry from the open approach described in Emma Lazarus’s poem inscribed on the bottom o...
“Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” Today, US asylum policy is a far cry from the open approach described in Emma Lazarus’s poem inscribed on the bottom o...
The word “education” appears in the constitutions of 185 of the 193 recognized states in the world. Of the eight countries that do not designate education as a fundamental constitutional right, all but one are subject to the United Nations Conven...
The word “education” appears in the constitutions of 185 of the 193 recognized states in the world. Of the eight countries that do not designate education as a fundamental constitutional right, all but one are subject to the United Nations Conven...
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, Americans have considered vaccines to be their ticket back to normalcy. Pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson quickly became household names as the entire world follo...
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, Americans have considered vaccines to be their ticket back to normalcy. Pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson quickly became household names as the entire world follo...
The internet is littered with harrowing stories of childbirth gone awry. In The New York Times, Tara Haelle chronicles Tamoyia Hashim’s experience with her third child, in which she lost three quarts of blood and needed a hysterectomy. A. Rochaun M...
The internet is littered with harrowing stories of childbirth gone awry. In The New York Times, Tara Haelle chronicles Tamoyia Hashim’s experience with her third child, in which she lost three quarts of blood and needed a hysterectomy. A. Rochaun M...
If you’ve ever had a Crunch Bar, there’s a chance a child slave in Côte d’Ivoire produced the cocoa. As illegal as that sounds, the question of whether US law can punish the two companies—Nestlé and Cargill—accused of aiding and abetting ...
If you’ve ever had a Crunch Bar, there’s a chance a child slave in Côte d’Ivoire produced the cocoa. As illegal as that sounds, the question of whether US law can punish the two companies—Nestlé and Cargill—accused of aiding and abetting ...
Each year, hundreds of thousands of wanderlusting adventure-seekers travel to Blanding, Utah, a quaint town with a population of under 4,000 people located in the southeastern corner of the state. What intrigues these excited travelers? The answer is...
Each year, hundreds of thousands of wanderlusting adventure-seekers travel to Blanding, Utah, a quaint town with a population of under 4,000 people located in the southeastern corner of the state. What intrigues these excited travelers? The answer is...
The days leading up to April 15 are filled with panic for many Americans who, upon realizing that their tax returns are due, must search frantically for their W-2s and open up TurboTax or a similar software. Taxpayers collectively spend over 3 billio...
The days leading up to April 15 are filled with panic for many Americans who, upon realizing that their tax returns are due, must search frantically for their W-2s and open up TurboTax or a similar software. Taxpayers collectively spend over 3 billio...