It’s always been hard to make it as an artist in America – and it’s becoming only harder
About 2.4 million Americans are artists, or 1% of the workforce. Ian Forsyth/Getty Images “Being...
Month: October 2025
4 urgent lessons for Jamaica from Puerto Rico’s troubled hurricane recovery – and how the Jamaican diaspora could help after Melissa
Hurricane Melissa’s 185 mph winds and storm surge tore apart buildings and left streets strewn...
Voters lose when maps get redrawn before every election instead of once a decade − a trend started in Texas, moving to California and likely spreading across the country
The new congressional districts in Texas, and the ones proposed for California, are pervasive upheavals...
‘Night of the Living Dead’ helped me process the Tree of Life massacre and other real-world horrors
Horror teaches us that we are the zombies. Pictorial Parade via Getty Images The Halloween...
Atorvastatin recall may affect hundreds of thousands of patients – and reflects FDA’s troubles inspecting medicines manufactured overseas
Several batches of the drug did not dissolve properly, which means the person taking them...
AI Chatbots Are Biased Against Women and Climate Justice, New Study Reveals
Groundbreaking research exposes how ChatGPT and other AI tools are reshaping climate conversations—and leaving women...
Nuclear-powered missiles: An aerospace engineer explains how they work – and what Russia’s claimed test means for global strategic stability
Russia’s earlier tests of the Burevestnik missile include this 2018 launch. Screencapture of Russian Defense...
Why are 4.7 million Floridians insured through ACA marketplace plans, and what happens if they lose their subsidies?
4.7 million Floridians use health insurance plans obtained from the ACA marketplace. Joe Raedle/Getty Images...
Rediscovery of African American burial grounds provides long-overdue opportunities for collective healing
In the course of construction work in 2013, the remains of 36 individuals of African...
More than 40 years after police killed Eleanor Bumpurs in her Bronx apartment, people still #sayhername
New York City has a long history of police using violence to control people experiencing...
