“People very rarely visit each other’s houses here. If people don't invite you to their home, don't be offended.” No matter how much research we do prior to visiting a…
Since taking office as President Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry has spent a good deal of his time on the road pushing the private sector to engage on climate change. I’ve heard the argument…
Hamas’s massacres on Oct. 7 delivered “new momentum” to the effort to deliver restitution to the descendants of Holocaust survivors and victims whose property was stolen, Stuart Eizenstat, the State Department’s…
Homeless veterans with mental illness who use Veterans Affairs (VA) health services are less likely to receive prescriptions for benzodiazepines than those with mental illness who are not homeless, according…
Photographs and Interviews by Robin Hammond | Text by Jamie Ducharme To be a U.S. teenager in 2023 is both the same as it ever was, and astoundingly different from…
The American Ornithological Society says it will alter the names of North American birds named after humans, starting with up to 80 of them After two years of discussion and…
The infant mortality rate in the U.S. is on its way up. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show a nearly 3% rise in the…
Even after Jim Crow laws were overturned following the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, neighborhood segregation persisted throughout the country thanks to intentional federal policies and restrictive…
AG Report Finds New Yorkers of Color Are Far Less Likely to Own a Home, More Likely to Be Denied Mortgages, and Face Higher Borrowing Costs Disparities Cost Black and…
Cambridge will install new street signs with road names translated into the Massachusett language in a multi-year initiative to recognize the city’s historical ties to its Indigenous residents. The project,…