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Young members of the Serra family gather in the building where family members make traditional farinha near their home in the Imbiral quilombo, which community members say is being heavily encroached upon by illegal logging and cattle ranching.

Social Justice

Inside the Land Rights Struggle for the Descendants of Runaway Slaves in Brazil

Communities made up of fugitive slave descendants have been forced from their lands and denied their rights, a situation that may only get worse under newly elected president Jair Bolsonaro.

Anna Sophie Gross

Commuters and train passengers walk through the main concourse of of Grand Central Station.

Social Justice

Is There a Dark Side to the Preservation of Grand Central Terminal?

While the rescue of Grand Central seems like a clear-cut case of good over evil, the role of historic preservation in the 21st-century city can be more complex.

Feargus O'Sullivan

Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli.

Social Justice

In Tanzania, the President Strikes Out Against Contraception

President John Magufuli has suspended advertising by family planning organizations, raising outcry among human rights groups.

Kristen Carey

Environment

Oregon’s Extreme Drought Looks Set to Continue

The Oregon drought this year is most striking because it covers many coastal areas known historically as some of the wettest in the country.

Matt Weiser

Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the G20 opening ceremony at the Hangzhou International Expo Center.

Social Justice

Jamal Khashoggi’s Death Underlines the Influence of U.S Foreign Policy in the Middle East

The United States has, over the years, weakened several important norms and signals that may have discouraged the violent actions of the Saudi government.

David Sterman

A woman and child walk down a street in the Fort Greene neighborhood where the director and artist Spike Lee once lived on February 27th, 2014, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

Social Justice

New Neighbors, New Noise Complaints

A team of researchers mapped the per capita 311 calls for nuisance complaints within gentrifying neighborhoods to find out how the influx of new residents affects racially charged calls to the police.

Tanvi Misra

A villager looks over a coral reef in the Solomon Islands.

Environment

Increased Logging Is Decimating Forests in the Solomon Islands

The small South Pacific island nation has become a major supplier of Chinese-imported timber.

John C. Cannon

A man casts a vote in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary on February 20th, 2016, in West Columbia, South Carolina.

Social Justice

The Texas Democratic Party May Be Investigated for a Confusing Voter Registration Mailer

The Texas secretary of state's office has asked the state's attorney general to investigate a democratic mailer that had a checkbox indicating citizenship pre-checked.

Blake Paterson

LGBTQ activists from the National Center for Transgender Equality, partner organizations, and their supporters hold a "We Will Not Be Erased" rally in front of the White House on October 22nd, 2018, in Washington, D.C. Members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters across the country mobilized quickly to show support for transgender rights after the New York Times published news of an unreleased Trump administration memo that proposes a strict definition of gender based on a person's genitalia at birth.

Social Justice

How to Reduce Health-Care Discrimination Against Trans and Non-Binary Communities

Approximately one-fifth of transgender and non-binary individuals have been denied equal treatment when trying to access doctors or hospitals.

Shanna K. Kattari

Economics

Social Media Platforms and the Black Market Sale of Cheetahs

A new analysis finds that, between February of 2012 and July of 2018, a total of 1,367 cheetahs were offered on sale through 906 posts on social media.

Shreya Dasgupta