Jeff Olivet is the executive director of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH). He has worked to prevent and end homelessness for more than 25 years as a street outreach worker, case ...
In the early fall of 2022, a confident and gregarious middle-aged man accompanied by a younger aide approached me as I walked around the local farmer’s market. He introduced himself. “Hi, I’m ...
Henry Grabar is a journalist who writes about cities. He is a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a staff writer at Slate. His work has also appeared in 99 Percent ...
Democracy isn’t decided on Election Day; it’s built between elections. Skye Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward ...
President Trump was the proximate cause of the violent assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. His words of incitement to a crowd of thousands of angry supporters -- including “[y]ou’ll never take ...
Grassroots donors – those contributing $200 or less – have emerged as a formidable force in American politics. These small donors gave $4 billion to candidates in the 2020 election cycle, an amount ...
Christine Quinn is the President and Chief Executive Officer of WIN (formerly Women in Need), the largest provider of shelter, social services, and supportive housing for homeless families in New York ...
Who is responsible for the carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that are causing our planet to warm? It is important to know, as only then can the problem be analyzed, and a solution ...
An impact investor reports that they created 1,000 new jobs. But what does this number really mean? The impact investing industry has made great strides when it comes to quantification and ...
Power grids, water supplies and local permitting are struggling to keep pace with AI on Earth. A small team of 15 in Redmond, Washington, is building the next generation of data centers in space.
Ronald Eyerman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Yale University and a founding co-director of Yale's Center for Cultural Sociology. Trained at the University of Lund in Sweden, Eyerman has become ...