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 2006, Officer Eddie Boyd of the St. Louis Missouri Police Department had to resign after pistol-whipping a child and falsifying the police report. He was acquitted for the crime, which was terribly frustrating for the child’s family. However, eq...
In 2006, Officer Eddie Boyd of the St. Louis Missouri Police Department had to resign after pistol-whipping a child and falsifying the police report. He was acquitted for the crime, which was terribly frustrating for the child’s family. However, eq...
Chronic lack of sleep affects more than one in three adults in the United States, and it is associated with a myriad of health problems. Medical conditions, restrictive work schedules, the normalization of sleep deprivation in popular media, and incr...
Chronic lack of sleep affects more than one in three adults in the United States, and it is associated with a myriad of health problems. Medical conditions, restrictive work schedules, the normalization of sleep deprivation in popular media, and incr...
For rural areas across America long under siege by the opioid epidemic, a disturbing trend has emerged: Drug users are showing up in emergency rooms with rotting teeth, emaciated bodies, and erratic, violent behavior. These are the dark signs of meth...
For rural areas across America long under siege by the opioid epidemic, a disturbing trend has emerged: Drug users are showing up in emergency rooms with rotting teeth, emaciated bodies, and erratic, violent behavior. These are the dark signs of meth...
San Francisco is a city of juxtapositions: concrete jungles abut natural havens; postmodern sculptures clash fiercely with the old mission-style architecture; and Angel Island, once emblematic of the United States’ harsh treatment of immigrants, is...
San Francisco is a city of juxtapositions: concrete jungles abut natural havens; postmodern sculptures clash fiercely with the old mission-style architecture; and Angel Island, once emblematic of the United States’ harsh treatment of immigrants, is...
Few things feel more powerful than being surrounded by young people who are taking a risk to speak out and fight for justice. Disrupting the DNC Summer Meeting at the Hyatt Regency Chicago this past August, an effort to demand the DNC reject fossil f...
Few things feel more powerful than being surrounded by young people who are taking a risk to speak out and fight for justice. Disrupting the DNC Summer Meeting at the Hyatt Regency Chicago this past August, an effort to demand the DNC reject fossil f...
John Fetterman is Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a town—near Pittsburgh—that once was home to Andrew Carnegie’s first steel mill and a thriving population of 20,000. Today, with some 2,000 residents, over one-quarter whom live in povert...
John Fetterman is Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a town—near Pittsburgh—that once was home to Andrew Carnegie’s first steel mill and a thriving population of 20,000. Today, with some 2,000 residents, over one-quarter whom live in povert...
Education represents a path to economic and social opportunity for people across the political spectrum. However, it’s evident that this path is racially skewed. Disparities in graduation rates, test scores, school resources, and disciplinary proba...
Education represents a path to economic and social opportunity for people across the political spectrum. However, it’s evident that this path is racially skewed. Disparities in graduation rates, test scores, school resources, and disciplinary proba...
Sexual education in the United States is taught almost entirely within an exclusively heterosexual framework, leaving LGBTQ+ students unable to see their identities and experiences reflected in the curricula. Some public schools even promote blatant ...
Sexual education in the United States is taught almost entirely within an exclusively heterosexual framework, leaving LGBTQ+ students unable to see their identities and experiences reflected in the curricula. Some public schools even promote blatant ...
Protests in Chicago often center around police misconduct or cuts to education funding. Over the past year, a political battle has unfolded over a project emblematic of both—a proposed $95 million police academy on the city’s West Side. Mayor Rah...
Protests in Chicago often center around police misconduct or cuts to education funding. Over the past year, a political battle has unfolded over a project emblematic of both—a proposed $95 million police academy on the city’s West Side. Mayor Rah...
Nowhere are the failures of public education and the American criminal justice system more apparent than in the daily lives of incarcerated minors in the United States. Every day, about 60,000 youth wake up behind bars. The majority have been suspend...
Nowhere are the failures of public education and the American criminal justice system more apparent than in the daily lives of incarcerated minors in the United States. Every day, about 60,000 youth wake up behind bars. The majority have been suspend...
The echoes of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the nation’s largest armed labor uprising, still reverberate throughout West Virginia’s rolling hills—and its classrooms. Starting on February 25, all of the state’s public schools closed for nearly...
The echoes of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the nation’s largest armed labor uprising, still reverberate throughout West Virginia’s rolling hills—and its classrooms. Starting on February 25, all of the state’s public schools closed for nearly...
Today, over two million people sit trapped in US prisons. The War on Drugs—which increased mandatory minimum sentences, stiffened penalties for low-level nonviolent drug crimes, and encouraged police involvement in urban areas, predominately home t...
Today, over two million people sit trapped in US prisons. The War on Drugs—which increased mandatory minimum sentences, stiffened penalties for low-level nonviolent drug crimes, and encouraged police involvement in urban areas, predominately home t...