From apartheid to the front lines of global health, Listening to Shadows is the gripping true story of one man’s fight for ...

Jennifer Galvin: A quick content note before we begin. This episode includes discussions of violence and trauma. Some of these descriptions may be difficult to hear. Please take care while listening. ...

When I think back on my quite long career in the world of academia, in government, and in public service, there was one occasion where I had a major fall from grace, and it had to do with the reaction ...

In July of 1995, Chicago experienced an intense heatwave, watching temperatures climb tas high as 106 degrees Fahrenheit ...

Tropical forests are one of our most crucial defenses against climate change, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. A record 6.7 million hectares of rainforest were lost in 2024, largely due ...

Picture this: You are freshly 16 years old, zooming down the New Jersey Turnpike with music blasting at 2 AM, hitting 103 miles per hour like it is nothing. The ...

In Kuwait, 24-year-old Fatima mourns the loss of her university education. Despite earning a 96 percent on her high school exams, a score that would normally guarantee a medical career, her status as ...

In 2024, The Boston Globe launched an unprecedented investigation into Massachusetts public schools, uncovering haunting stories of special-needs students’ parents attempting to navigate the education ...

Alexander Gourevitch is a political theorist and historian of political thought at Brown University. His work focuses on labor, freedom, and political theory, with particular attention to the history ...

In 1895, following nearly four centuries of colonial rule, Cuba launched its third and final war of independence against the Spanish Empire. Almost immediately, the American population was ...

Computers—and therefore, the world— run on chips. The production of said chips is limited to just a few countries (primarily because of the immense fixed costs and supply chain clusters), namely South ...