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Children and workers are seen at a tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry on June 19th, 2018, in Tornillo, Texas.

Social Justice

Legal Filings Reveal That Immigrant Shelters Are Overmedicating Unaccompanied Minors

Lawsuits agains the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services reveal a pattern of immigrant shelters prescribing powerful psychotropic drugs without receiving informed consent.

Caroline Chen & Jess Ramirez

A man fills a bag with charcoal he and other men made after they cut down a patch of secondary forest near Andasibe in southwest Madagascar.

Environment

Measuring the Cost of Conservation

A new study in Madagascar shows that forest conservation projects come at a great price to the local population, many of whom are already struggling economically.

John C. Cannon

Economics

Prison Commerce Goes Digital

While most commerce within prisons revolves around food and hygiene products, a recent report found that digital sales are the "future of commissary."

Mia Armstrong

A crane flies over the green algae blooms that are seen at the Port Mayaca Lock and Dam on Lake Okeechobee on July 10th, 2018, in Port Mayaca, Florida.

Environment

How to Stop Toxic Algae From Overwhelming Florida’s Largest Lake

Blue-green algae has bloomed again in Lake Okeechobee, filling waterways with putrid sludge that can contaminate local water and marine animals.

Rebecca Renner

Environment

Tracking Young Great Whites Off the Coast of Long Island

This area of the Atlantic has been known as a nursery for the apex predator for decades, but no one has attempted to study these sharks' movements—until now.

Erik Hoffner

Environment

Inside the Fight Over Extracting Water From Texas for Fracking in New Mexico

The oil business in New Mexico is booming, but due to the state's stricter laws the groundwater being used to access petroleum is pumped in from Texas.

Matt Weiser

Social Justice

What Are the Implications of Israel’s ‘Nation-State Law’ for Jewish-Arab Relations?

The message the law sends to Israel's Arab citizens is unequivocal: This state is not yours and this land does not belong to you.

Dov Waxman

News in Brief

Is the Census Bureau Prepared to Cope With Potential Cyber Attacks?

The 2020 census will be the first in the nation's history to be conducted electronically, which will also mean more potential for outside interference.

Kriston Capps

New United States citizen Mosammat Rasheda Akter, originally Bangladesh, holds her seven-month-old daughter Fahmida as she sings the U.S. National Anthem during naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library on July 3rd, 2018, in New York City. Two hundred immigrants from 50 countries became citizens during the ceremony.

Social Justice

Assessing a Troubling Trend of Racial and Religious Harassment in New York City

Among the 3,000 Muslim, Jewish, and Sikh residents surveyed, some 38 percent said they had been verbally harassed or taunted because of their race or faith.

Rahima Nasa