Many US colleges have made the SAT and ACT tests optional elements in the application process in order to increase student diversity on campus, but doing so has not necessarily had the intended effect, Jill Barshay reported for The Hechinger Report in October 2022. Barshay’s article cited the findings of…
Extreme weather in low-lying Bangladesh is leading to “worsening flooding, erosion and storms” that are forcing “thousands of families” from their rural homes into urban slums, Mosabber Hossain reported in May 2022 for Context, a news platform produced by the Thomas Reuters Foundation. For many of these children, Hossain wrote,…
Staff in a New Jersey prison have encouraged inmates to physically fight each other, according to complaints and allegations reported by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg in a February 2023 article published by the Appeal. The New Jersey Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson, which provides oversight of prisons to protect incarcerated peoples’ safety,…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that, starting in January 2024, prison phone companies will be required to provide phone services with video, a major step forward for the incarcerated deaf community, Christie Thompson reported for the Marshall Project and Mother Jones. Consequently, deaf people in custody will have dramatically…
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On March 20, 2023, John K. Wilson of Academe Blog reported on the controversy surrounding a Bowling Green State University faculty member’s emails alleging misconduct in past hiring decisions. Associate Professor of Philosophy Christian Coons was suspended after sending emails to his colleagues about the possibility that money from the…
In a September 2022 article for the Tufts Daily, Liz Shelbred detailed the frustration of students as a result of makeshift living accommodations due to over-enrollment. For most college students, on-campus housing typically consists of a two-person dormitory room, furnished with standard desks, wardrobes, and beds. However, in recent years,…
Enemies of press and speech freedoms have concocted a new method for fighting truth though exploitation of US copyright law. According to an original report by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), and substantiated by the BBC, at least five articles critical of powerful oil lobbyists have been…
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In a time of unprecedented economic hardship, lawmakers tacked a last-minute provision on the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to shield the nation’s multi-billion dollar defense industry from the effects of inflation. As Julia Gledhill reported for Responsible Statecraft in March 2023, the modification to the annual defense policy…
Coastal habitats in most northern states lose up to seventy feet of their land annually due to erosion caused by climate change, forcing entire Indigenous communities to relocate. The Biden administration paid the first three villages in Alaska and Washington $25 million to move their key buildings away from the…
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Electric utility companies have been knowingly spreading misinformation about climate change for decades, Grist reported in September 2022, based on a report published that month in Environmental Research Letters. Utility companies, research groups, and trade associations, including the Edison Electric Institute and the Electric Power Research Institute, have been aware…
