How we can build sustainable, equitable cities after the pandemic ted.com Cities are engines of culture, commerce, knowledge and community, but they're also centers of inequality and poverty. As the world rebuilds from the coronavirus...

A Tech Powerhouse, U.S. Lags In Using Smartphones For Contact Tracing npr.org Google and Apple teamed up on using smartphones to track coronavirus infections. But the systems are only available in a few states, where they're being used by...

The way the US measures poverty is outdated, misleading, and could leave millions of Americans witho... businessinsider.com To measure poverty in the United States, we are using over 50-year-old models. This leaves out scores of poor people from the equation....

Nobel Prize In Literature Awarded To U.S. Poet Louise Glück npr.org The 2020 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to U.S. poet Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence...

Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale nytimes.com Its decision to carry on in the face of the pandemic has yielded a surge of deaths without sparing its economy from damage — a red flag as the United States a...