A study conducted by Nobel prize winning economist Sir Angus Deaton has the British worried they may be headed toward greater levels of inequality and diminished democracy as a result. “We don’t want to end up like the Unites States,” scream the headlines.
Indigenous peoples from islands off the coast of Australia have brought a landmark lawsuit to the UN, claiming that Australia’s failure to curb carbon emissions, and the resultant erosion of their lands and sacred spaces, “has violated their fundamental human rights.”
The Steinhardts made multiple multi-million-dollar donations to New York University, but the school has launched an investigation into potential improprieties.
Historically, zoning has been a key tool for concentrating environmental harms in low-income communities and communities of color. Now, however, an increasing number of cities are using the same tool to begin to reverse the damage environmental racism has wrought.
The late rapper Nipsey Hussle has been praised for his philanthropy, but he also cared about community economic development. His vision included the idea that, to avoid gentrification, community residents must become co-owners of developments.
Kaiser Permanente will soon launch Thrive Local, a digital care coordination platform that makes it easier for its medical providers to connect patients to community-based social services.
The current ride-hailing service business model is in desperate need of change.
We Build the Wall has not yet done so, despite some otherworldly promises made earlier this year.
The most recent statistics on maternal mortality in the United States show that women are now more than twice as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than they were 32 years ago.
A terrifying study finds that children in many Latinx neighborhoods in Los Angeles face exposure to lead and arsenic. How better to tell that tale than to study baby teeth? Enter the Truth Fairy.
Mark Zuckerberg’s role of dominance over Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have drawn calls for change, whether that means keeping him off Facebook’s board or breaking up the mega-enterprise.
A proposed merger of city and county in and around St. Louis has been withdrawn—at least in part because it would have left political power in the hands of a group that would have less Black representation than the city itself.