America’s Cities Have A Hunger Problem That Can't Be Solved With Food Alone
THE GOOD NEWS: Food donation programs are going far beyond efforts to reduce food waste — they’re also helping the needy develop that job skills that could help lift them…
Syria: on academic freedom and responsibility
A checkpoint with posters of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the entrance of the Wafidin area, the countryside of Damascus, Syria. Picture by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua…
When A Young Baseball Fan Lost Everything In The California Fires, The Sports World Helped Him In An Amazing Way
As the California wildfires continue to burn, 41 lives have been lost so far and more than 200 people remain missing. Though firefighters are now making inroads toward controlling and extinguishing the…
Feminism gone bad? Women’s organisations and the hard right in Germany
Click:api602 forged gate valve Kübra Gümüşay (2016).Wikicommons/re:publica/Gregor Fischer. Some rights reserved. The populist radical right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been working to get to the top of the…
Education Isn't A Constitutional Right, But It Should Be
Public school funding has shrunk over the past decade. School discipline rates reached historic highs. Large achievement gaps persist. And the overall performance of our nation’s students falls well below…
Homeless Girl Scouts In NYC Are Out To Sell 12,000 Boxes Of Cookies
If you live in New York and happen to see more activity than usual outside the Kellogg’s NYC Cafe in Union Square, that’s just Girl Scout Troop 6000 hard at…
Can Iran turn crisis into opportunity?
People Iran's President Hassan Rouhani's speech at a teahouse in central Tehran on May 8, 2018. Picture by Ahmad Halabisaz/Xinhua News Agency/PA Image. All rights reserved.“Those who do not learn…
The NFL’s Plan To Donate $89 Million In Hopes Of Ending Anthem Protests Is Causing A Player Rift
Eyebrows raised this week when the NFL agreed to spend $89 million to help promote and support a slew of largely left-leaning political causes, a drive that seemed to receive…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70
Screenshot: 'I Daniel Blake' - official UK trailer(HD).YouTube.In mid-November, a spectacle little noticed by much of world media unfolded in one of the most affluent countries and one which, not…
Do Fantasy Sports Make Fans Less Likely To See Players As Human Beings?
It was a routine play at the tail end of the Seattle Seahawks’ 46-18 throttling of the Indianapolis Colts. While trying to whittle the remaining time off the clock in…