In July of 1995, Chicago experienced an intense heatwave, watching temperatures climb tas high as 106 degrees Fahrenheit while feeling like124 degrees. Over the five days this extreme heat lasted, 739 people died, most of them Black, low-income, and ...
Putting on a pair of glasses should not be enough to identify a stranger, pull up their home address, and turn a chance encounter into a data profile. But in 2024, two Harvard students did exactly that. Using Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, the facia...
Tropical forests are one of our most crucial defenses against climate change, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. A record 6.7 million hectares of rainforest were lost in 2024, largely due to agriculture and human-caused wildfires—result...
In 2009, a homeless encampment under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami attained international infamy when it was discovered that all the residents were registered sex offenders. Just last year, another sex offender encampment emerged in the same cou...
In 2009, a homeless encampment under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami attained international infamy when it was discovered that all the residents were registered sex offenders. Just last year, another sex offender encampment emerged in the same cou...
Hours before the AFC championship game this February, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft solicited sex workers at the Orchids of Asia Day spa in Florida. He was charged with soliciting a prostitute as part of a larger bust in which these spas an...
Hours before the AFC championship game this February, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft solicited sex workers at the Orchids of Asia Day spa in Florida. He was charged with soliciting a prostitute as part of a larger bust in which these spas an...
The financial state of the U.S. healthcare system is decidedly unhealthy. For a country that prides itself on market-based efficiency, the United States’ performance on any number of value-based outcomes is ironically dismal. In measures of equ...
The financial state of the U.S. healthcare system is decidedly unhealthy. For a country that prides itself on market-based efficiency, the United States’ performance on any number of value-based outcomes is ironically dismal. In measures of equ...
Ambitious has certainly been a word used to describe the “Green New Deal,” a 14-page resolution to tackle climate change authored by Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Since its release to the public in early February, it has recei...
Ambitious has certainly been a word used to describe the “Green New Deal,” a 14-page resolution to tackle climate change authored by Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Since its release to the public in early February, it has recei...
An island in the Chesapeake Bay is sinking. It’s projected to be underwater within the next 30 years, and its inhabitants are going to be some of the first American climate change refugees. But they’re denying the existence of climate change as ...
An island in the Chesapeake Bay is sinking. It’s projected to be underwater within the next 30 years, and its inhabitants are going to be some of the first American climate change refugees. But they’re denying the existence of climate change as ...
2018 was the “Year of the Woman”; across the U.S., citizens are rightfully excited by the significant rise in both female Congress-members and female voters that fractures the male-dominated tradition of the political world. However, despite this...
2018 was the “Year of the Woman”; across the U.S., citizens are rightfully excited by the significant rise in both female Congress-members and female voters that fractures the male-dominated tradition of the political world. However, despite this...
The rising cost of healthcare in the United States is old news, with spending projected to increase over five percent annually until 2026. A new Trump Administration directive is taking a step towards combating this trend: As of January 1, 2019, the ...
The rising cost of healthcare in the United States is old news, with spending projected to increase over five percent annually until 2026. A new Trump Administration directive is taking a step towards combating this trend: As of January 1, 2019, the ...
On average, Americans spend ten hours staring at a screen every day. The incorporation of internet use into everyday life has become so ubiquitous that the inability to get online can have massive repercussions. Nicol Turner Lee of Brookings summar...
On average, Americans spend ten hours staring at a screen every day. The incorporation of internet use into everyday life has become so ubiquitous that the inability to get online can have massive repercussions. Nicol Turner Lee of Brookings summar...
In the crowded Democratic field for the 2020 Presidential primary, candidate Andrew Yang is certainly a long shot. He has no name recognition, and his main policy of universal basic income is not likely to make headlines. But in his self-proclaimed ...
In the crowded Democratic field for the 2020 Presidential primary, candidate Andrew Yang is certainly a long shot. He has no name recognition, and his main policy of universal basic income is not likely to make headlines. But in his self-proclaimed ...
The American vote is broken. The solution may not be to bring the people to the polls, but rather to bring the polls to the people by allowing them to vote at home. The 2018 election cycle revealed that weaknesses continue to exist in our current ele...
The American vote is broken. The solution may not be to bring the people to the polls, but rather to bring the polls to the people by allowing them to vote at home. The 2018 election cycle revealed that weaknesses continue to exist in our current ele...
The Michael Cohen testimony this month brought yet another round of commentary and speculation about the fate of the Trump presidency. Calls for impeachment, though, were largely dismissed by Democratic party leaders, who prefer to wait until the det...
The Michael Cohen testimony this month brought yet another round of commentary and speculation about the fate of the Trump presidency. Calls for impeachment, though, were largely dismissed by Democratic party leaders, who prefer to wait until the det...
Predictive policing, a practice carried out by tools like CrimeScan and PredPol, uses algorithmic systems to predict geographic areas that are most likely to have patterns of criminal behaviors based on data of previous reports of crimes, frequency o...
Predictive policing, a practice carried out by tools like CrimeScan and PredPol, uses algorithmic systems to predict geographic areas that are most likely to have patterns of criminal behaviors based on data of previous reports of crimes, frequency o...