With climate-fueled disasters killing hundreds of Americans annually and costing communities billions of dollars, a growing number of local governments are asking a basic question: Are there some places where…
By Ivana Nikolić Hughes, Christian Ciobanu | November 3, 2023 In contrast with the grandeur of the General Assembly Hall, the uplifting design of the Trusteeship Council room, and the stunning circular table in the Security…
“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…
Updated 12:01 pm EDT Nov. 3, 2023 They both played their part in the violence that has shaped their lives. They are both bereaved fathers, of young daughters. Somehow, against…
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 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…
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…