Today, over two million people sit trapped in US prisons. The War on Drugs—which increased mandatory minimum sentences, stiffened...

Squeaky chalkboards and overhead projectors have been classroom staples for decades, but the landscape of public education is quickly...

In 2014—for the first time ever—pupils of color accounted for more than half of the pupils in public schools.  This demographic shift,...

Hidden within the 2018 tax reform bill is a provision that could reinvent development financing across the country. The Investment in...

One hundred feet underground, temperatures normally hover around 58 degrees Fahrenheit. In this man-made cave, however, it’s a cool 36....

In the United States, we both love animals and love to eat them. But even as people grow more aware of the questionable practices of the...

Donald Trump’s Twitter flexing might have you think otherwise, but it’s not the size of your nuclear weapon that matters: It’s whether...

At J. Sterling Morton High School East in Cicero, IL–where 92 percent of students are low-income–AP classes are on the rise. In an effort...

As “smart” data-driven approaches have become increasingly common and successful in police departments across the country, a movement to...

In September 2017, Hurricanes Irma and Maria swept through Puerto Rico, taking with them hundreds of lives across the island. The...

The #MeToo movement that has swept through Hollywood has begun to enter new cultural spheres, most recently making its way into the world...

Mass shootings and school shootings have become horrifically commonplace in 2018. Yet the February 14th Parkland, Florida school shooting...

10,000 more Americans die per year from opioid overdoses than during the peak of the AIDS epidemic. Drug overdoses, a large majority of...

Like Janus–the Roman god with two faces–the Supreme Court case Janus vs. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees...

Over one month after the horrific school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the debate about the...

The New York City Subway system is in a state of complete disarray. Currently, only 65 percent of subway trains arrive at their...

Any family that decides to surf channels on the TV to watch the news, sports, or a movie in the fall of an election year will undoubtedly...

Since the 1960s, America has vaunted Asians as the nation’s model minority. Simultaneously overrepresented at Harvard (relative to the...

California’s housing crisis is well-documented. Palo Alto, home to Stanford, offers subsidized housing assistance for any household with...

As the recent sex abuse trial of former United States Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar unfolded, it became apparent that there existed...