After Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 25, 2022, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, called for civilian men to stay and fight against the Russians (Ukraine’s women were advised to flee the country with their children). The Ukrainian resistance has been the topic of numerous US news reports, but Ukrainian women…
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For young adults, street harassment is an ongoing obstacle that some face every day, American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) Rebecca Sandoval reported in January 2022. Sandoval’s report focused on a group of young women from El Salvador who started a campaign, “Las calles también son de nosotras” (“The streets are…
In a March 2022 article for Truthout, Igor Derysh reported that conservative dark money organizations opposing President Biden’s Supreme Court nomination also helped fuel conspiracy theories of election fraud after the 2020 election. Derysh summarized a recent report from watchdog group Accountable.US, which revealed that organizations such as Judicial Crisis…
The pandemic has compounded a host of systemic issues in the United States, including food insecurity in Indian Country. In an interview for High Country News, B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster spoke with the Native American Agriculture Fund’s CEO Toni Stanger-McLaughlin (Colville) to learn more about the special January 2022 report Reimagining…
When Russian forces escalated attacks in Ukraine in February, social media users were forced to sift through mounting misinformation. But a new TikTok phenomenon is preying on Sweden’s most vulnerable. In a January 2022 article for Defense One, Elisabeth Braw, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, discussed Swedish…
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, public schools have increased their reliance on technology, having nearly doubled the number of school-issued tablet and laptop devices used by students, according to Nir Kshetri in an article published by The Conversation in November 2021. The increase in school-issued…
Racially motivated acts of violence encompass not only mass shootings, but also self-induced deaths. Unlike any other racial group in the US, Asian American youth aged 15-24 grapple with suicide as the first leading cause of death. In addition, Asian Americans are the least likely racial group to seek mental…
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Hazardous air quality throughout the United States is subjecting low-income and predominantly racial communities to at least double the acceptable cancer risk set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ProPublica reported in November 2021. Despite the life-threatening effects of air pollution, lax environmental regulations allow polluters to emit dangerous amounts…
During a November 2021 episode of the Electronic Frontier Foundation podcast, hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien spoke with the director of Stanford’s Program on Platform Regulation, Daphne Keller. Keller shared how faulty content moderation is transforming platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google. For instance, artificial intelligence may flag counter-speech,…
In a November 2021 article for The Conversation, Sonja Klinsky outlined how and why poorer countries and regions are disproportionately affected by climate change. Wealthier nations, such as the US, Canada and Australia, all have roughly 100 times the per capita greenhouse gas emissions of several African countries largely due…
