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The Importance of Community Support for Prisoner Re-Entry Programs
To be successful, re-entry programs must work to facilitate more interaction between former inmates and potential role models in their new neighborhoods.
Who Really Runs the Airbnbs?
Outside investors buying properties and turning them into full-time, short-term rentals are pricing locals out of the market.
Link Between Religiosity, Good Health Debunked
New research finds it only holds true in regions where high levels of piety are the norm.
For a Writer of Color, Is Twitter More Valuable Than an MFA?
As if the overwhelmingly white world of publishing, institutional networking, and workshopping wasn't already hard for people of color. Morgan Jerkins found writerly advancement in the more informal space of Black Twitter.
Learn a Language for a Neighbor?
Across borders, language learning follows two main patterns. Neither leaves room for learning a language for the sake of building a community.
Self-Driving Cars Won’t Fix Our Transit Woes
Real transportation futurism looks more like a fleet of self-driving buses.
Are Madagascar’s Efforts to Save Forests Working?
Community forest management gets put to the test, and it doesn't fare well.
Why Juvenile Justice Should Start—and Stay—at Home
Texas A&M researchers explain how community-based programs rehabilitate juvenile offenders better, and for less money, than correctional facilities.