A lot of parents are worried about the well-being of children across the United States. It’s not unfounded: Nearly three-quarters of students are not proficient in basic skills, and many struggle with ...

I was hired at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 as a language professor. I relocated from Hawaii, where I had learned the Hawaiian language. When I arrived in Colorado, I decided I needed to ...

In 2023, former United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy sounded the alarm about a public health crisis plaguing the country: Social isolation. And thus was coined the “loneliness epidemic.” ...

When victims of sexual assault visit medical centers or police stations after being attacked, their clothes are often confiscated for DNA evidence, leaving already vulnerable people with nothing but a ...

There’s a chance you’ve heard the phrase “voting with your dollars.” Essentially, it means that all of us have the power to make the world a better place and make our voices heard by where and how we ...

On November 22, the Saturday before Thanksgiving, Nashville bakery owner Kathy Leslie was cooking up hot holiday meals for over 700 families. It’s a tradition that Leslie’s Shugga Hi Bakery & Cafe has ...

Last weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was deployed to Charlotte, North Carolina in an effort to ramp up operations at the behest of the Trump administration. With over 250 arrests in the ...

When gift-giving holidays roll around, those of us who care about social and environmental justice are always trying to balance our desire to give meaningful gifts with the knowledge that so many of ...

In 1978, Eligio Peña, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, opened his first family-owned grocery store in Queens, New York: Compare Foods. The chain grew quickly, expanding to neighboring ...

For many of us, anxiety and depression stemming from the climate crisis have become nearly ubiquitous with the plight of modern life. We deliver quippy one-liners about the world being on fire, share ...

Architect Kamal Sagar, owner of Total Environment, typically designs single-family and apartment homes in India. But as a frequent visitor to the United States, he decided to build his first project ...

What would it take to make car-free living possible across the United States? The question has critical implications for the climate: Transportation is the nation’s top source of emissions, and ...