Development & Education

July 03, 2020

School’s out for summer, but the educational losses caused by the coronavirus are only just beginning to be understood.

These DACA recipients hit a ceiling in the US. So they left.

June 30, 2020

A small but growing global community of people who once had DACA are giving up on a country that has struggled to pass comprehensive immigration reform for a generation. They're moving abroad instead.

Critical State

Biology will play ‘a key role in the response to future crises,’ says health security scholar

Inkstick Media

June 30, 2020

Translating science into policy has been challenging in the COVID-19 era. It is now critical to "expand biology expertise in government from the silos it is currently in to much more prominent policymaking roles," says health security scholar Gigi Gronvall in conversation with Sam Ratner of the Critical State newsletter.

Education

Black history is ‘integral part’ of British culture, says Black Curriculum founder

The World

June 24, 2020

What do students learn in the classroom about race and history? In the UK, an organization called The Black Curriculum has been pushing for Black history to be taught nationwide.

Education

Colleges brace for steep drop in international enrollment this fall

WGBH News

June 24, 2020

Nearly 90% of colleges expect international enrollment to decrease next semester due to the pandemic.

Borders

US-Mexico border wall threatens sacred Native lands

Living on Earth

June 22, 2020

The Tohono O'odham Nation has been confined to a tiny fraction of the lands it once held in the desert Southwest. Now the Trump administration’s border wall expansion threatens to further damage and restrict their access to sacred and archeological sites.

COVID-19: The latest from The World

Options dwindle for Venezuelan migrants across Latin America during the pandemic

The World

June 17, 2020

COVID-19 has left Venezuelans across the region reeling and with dwindling options, at the same moment the World Health Organization declared Latin America the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic.

Critical State

When reform hasn't worked: Part I

Inkstick Media

June 16, 2020

The recent history of police reform in America is not encouraging. One area of policing that draws special attention from anti-violence advocates is the stationing of police in schools — especially in schools where the students are majority black.

Arts, Culture & Media

This Zimbabwe rom-com could be your next Netflix binge

The World

June 11, 2020

“Cook Off” is the story of a single mom who enters a TV cooking competition that might just change her life. It became the first film from Zimbabwe to get picked up by Netflix.

Protest

From Minneapolis to Madrid, racial profiling and police harassment cost lives

The World

June 10, 2020

The death of George Floyd in the United States has resonated in Spain, where black people are seven times as likely to be stopped by police as white people.

Development & Education

Pandemic-prompted remote education efforts get a failing grade

These DACA recipients hit a ceiling in the US. So they left.

Biology will play ‘a key role in the response to future crises,’ says health security scholar

Black history is ‘integral part’ of British culture, says Black Curriculum founder

Colleges brace for steep drop in international enrollment this fall

US-Mexico border wall threatens sacred Native lands

Options dwindle for Venezuelan migrants across Latin America during the pandemic

When reform hasn't worked: Part I

This Zimbabwe rom-com could be your next Netflix binge

From Minneapolis to Madrid, racial profiling and police harassment cost lives

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