Road accidents are still responsible for 1.3 million annual deaths and 50 million injuries all over the world, but the United Nations has a Global Plan to halve road deaths and injuries…
New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Battery Park City Authority held a dedication ceremony on Thursday for the descendant of a tree that was initially planted by…
As I eagerly await Spotify’s year-end report on my most-played songs of 2021, I wonder which ones will remind me of my summer in New York City—of off-pitch Karaoke Television…
At 42m metric tons of plastic waste a year, the US generates more waste than all EU countries combined The US is the world’s biggest culprit in generating plastic waste…
Black Catholics push back against an archbishop's claim that social justice movements are "pseudo-religions." November is Black Catholic History Month, but the faithful’s ignorance of the historical issues of race,…
Those who deny that Trump praised racists as “very fine people” are now pushing revisionist versions of what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Despite a jury’s $25 million verdict against…
What will it cost to get greenhouse gas emissions down to net zero by mid-century, and are people around the world prepared to pay it? This was a question posed…
Richard Amoah went to Ghana for his father’s funeral and found himself barred from returning to Britain for two and a half years. Like other victims of the Windrush scandal,…
Colombia is marking the fifth anniversary of the signing of the landmark 2016 Final Peace Agreement between the Government and the former Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejercito Popular (FARC-EP) in…
Can peace be measured? If peace is understood as more than just the absence of war, are there fundamental and common elements that define it across different types of conflict…