Each year, disasters drive an average of 31.5 million people from their homes, and many remain homeless for months or years afterward. In this speech, Michael McDaniel outlines his efforts to design, build, and find support for a temporary shelter for disaster victims. Will he succeed? View the video and decide for yourself.
After leading March for Our Lives protests across the country, student activists make plans for continued engagement on issues they care about.
Look at photos of student walkouts across the country as they protest gun violence.
With some decisions, we don’t have the luxury of getting all the facts and considering all the possible consequences. Here’s a split-second decision with a happy ending.
Leaders of the United Nations point to a recent study that shows how hunger and conflict are linked and say that incresing food security can help bring peace.
Poland may implement a law that will make it illegal to accuse the country of involvement with the Holocaust. Click to learn more about the law and the controversy surrounding it.
In another chapter of America’s reckoning with the history of slavery, Baltimore has removed Confederate statues from one of its parks and renamed it after abolionist Harriet Tubman.
Get an overview of the injustices faced by the group of people considered by many to be the world’s most persecuted minority.
Answer questions based on realistic scenarios to find out where you rank in the balance between freedom and security. Then, see which historical figures fit and clash with your “freedom type.”
See a round-up of some of the most Macbeth-like rulers of the 21st century.
Linda Ryden, an elementary school teacher in Washington D.C., explains how teaching mindfulness has led to fewer fights and less bullying.
A study on the Tea Party’s 2009 “Tax Day” protest showed researchers that protests are effective, but not in the way one might think.
All over the world, people displaced by war, famine, and other hardships must travel to unknown places to start new lives. This trailer for a documentary film by artist Ai Weiwei touches on the challenges they face along the journey.
The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York now features a virtual version of Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank and survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
In 2017, Germany’s national railway considered naming one of its trains after Anne Frank. Many people objected to the plan. Read this article to learn more.
Find out about the push to turn the power of #metoo into action that improves lives at all levels, across the country.
Climate change models are more complicated than you might think. Increasing temperatures change the way carbon is held in soil, water, and ice.
On the scenic west coast of Ireland, in the late 1980s, a fossil was found by an Irish geologist. Recently, it’s been dated as 435 million years old and the oldest of its type in Ireland.
In December 2017, a United Nations official suggested that the humanitarian crisis taking place in Myanmar could amount to genocide. So far, the international community has not responded strongly to the crisis. Click to learn more.
It’s not your imagination—California’s wildfires really are threatening more people and property than ever. Find out about the changes that are fueling the destruction.
