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Inside the audacious mission to bring a rare toad back from the brink
The amphibian “IVF clinic” fighting to save the first amphibian ever afforded federal protections. Strings of eggs from breeding pairs of the Houston toad at the Fort Worth Zoo are prepared for release into a pond at Griffith League Ranch. Each bag of
Unearthing the past: Iraq’s mass graves and the quest for justice
Workers exhume the remains of bodies from a mass grave, presumably where Turkmens from Tal Afar were killed between 2014 and 2017 when ISIS controlled the region, Tal Afar district, Iraq, July 2024Image by picture alliance / Anadolu / Ali Makram Ghareeb ©
She Managed to get a Temporary Farmworker Visa
She managed to get a temporary farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse and exploitation.agricultural labor where they face sexual violence and trafficking. A Prism investigation reveals that women are routinely shut out of the H-2A program, and when they are
‘They Beat Me Like a Slave’: Signs of Violence in Sheriff’s Office Dated Back Years
The F.B.I. and a Mississippi sheriff investigated complaints about brutal assaults, but the deputies accused remained on the force and never faced charges. By Nate Rosenfield and Mukta Joshi Nate Rosenfield and Mukta Joshi are reporters for Mississippi Today. They examined the power of sheriff’s offices
Unlocking the Gates: How the North Led Housing Discrimination in America
Original release: February 12 2025 In this gripping follow-up to his award-winning podcast What Happened in Alabama?, Alicia Patterson Fellow Lee Hawkins exposes how Northern developers, brokers and legislators engineered a nationwide system of housing apartheid. Drawing on newly unearthed deeds, newspaper archives and first-person
Opinion | Are Embryos Property or People? Even the Courts Don’t Know
OPINION Are Embryos Property? Human Life? Neither? The Embryo Question is a three-part series about the cluster of cells at the crossroads of science, ethics and the law. Read the introduction. Between divorce cases and I.V.F. disputes, the frozen embryos vials like
The Coyote Next Door
What urban wildlife can teach us about cognition, survival and how to be good neighbors. Standing in a thicket of poplars, surrounded by tangled brush and magpie chatter, there’s an air of wilderness. But reminders of the urban world beyond the trees are
Opinion: Mexico’s new president should tackle the country’s festering human rights catastrophe
New President Claudia Sheinbaum can do more than her predecessor to resolve the disappearances and murders of Mexicans by gangs and past governments. (Fernando Llano / Associated Press) Every morning when I walk to the park across from my apartment in Mexico City,
How Heavy Rains and High Tides Hurt Nyc’s Black and Brown Neighborhoods
Normally, Estefani Nuñez parks the small yellow school bus she drives each day by the side of her home in the Rosedale neighborhood in Queens. On the day before she knows it’s going to rain, she parks her school bus a block away.
A climate change forecast: rain with a chance of mosquito-borne diseases
Decades before Elizabeth Blaney, now 84, moved to St. Albans, the neighborhood was shaded yellow on maps made by the federal government. The color yellow could mean there was a high number of immigrants—or that there was a possibility of Black people moving
How Robots Helped My Parents’ Dementia
Forget the crappy caregiver bots and puppy-eyed seals. When my parents got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations. This article first appeared in the January, 2024 edition of Wired. Her research was supported by an
The Allure and Dangers of Experimenting With Brain-Dead Bodies
For scientists who perform medical research on the recently deceased, there are few regulatory or ethical guardrails. This article, written by Jyoti Madhusoodanan, is based on her 2023 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship research on human experiments and greater openness behind clinical trials. It
In Kosovo, War Survivors Turned Homes Into Their Own Museums
This article, by APF fellow Nina Strochlic, first appeared in the Washington Post on February 21, 2024. It was supported by her research for her APF fellowship. POKLEK, Kosovo — Fadil Muqolli has spent more than two decades trying to rebuild his life.
A Country Shaped By Poetry
This article, by APF fellow Nina Strochlic, first appeared in the Noēma Magazine on February 21, 2024. It was supported by her research for her APF fellowship. Hargeysa, the capital city of Somaliland. (Mustafa Saeed/Noema Magazine) Somaliland’s poets have toppled governments and ushered
How a controversial US drug policy could be harming cancer patients worldwide
Illustration by Karol Banach In August 2021, Amol Akhade, an oncologist at Nair Medical Hospital in Mumbai, India, received an e-mail from the Swiss drug manufacturer Roche recommending the use of a drug named atezolizumab to treat a specific kind of breast cancer.
US push to turn farm manure into renewable energy draws concerns
AMES, IOWA – In a gathering that drew the attendance of both farmers and Wall Street financiers, US regulators joined with oil giant Chevron at a November conference here to promote what backers promise will be a monumental breakthrough – systemic changes that
Where is the Future of the Catholic Church? Watching Young Adults Drop Out
The Catholic Church in the United States is split over the role of women, and whether Joe Biden should receive Holy Communion, but these divisions pale in comparison to the gap between the hierarchy and many young Catholics. They are dropping out in
Pope’s Environmental Stand Splits Catholics
The ecological concern Pope Francis has sparked among Catholics –and resistance to it– reflect how the faithful are split over the climate emergency, the role of capitalism, and where 1.3 billion global Catholics should put their money and clout. Powerful detractors say Pope
Fractured Worship
The small congregation of Roman Catholic women gathered for Mass not in a church but a living room, with a woman presider rather than a male priest. After the homily, each of the women offered a brief reflection. They took Holy Communion in
Sign of Catholic Divide – Women Want a Bigger Role in the Church
The small congregation prayed, sang, and listened to readings from scripture as any other Roman Catholics might do at Mass, rendering particular reverence at the moment of consecration, when the faithful believe bread and wine become the body and blood of Jesus Christ
Convicting the Wrong Man: Part One of Two
Fighting Battles for Grizzlies
A Land of Madrassahs
Secrets of Aging Well in Norway
Haitian-American Politics in Chicago
Polish Entrepreneurs after the 1989 Roundtable
U.S. Border Wars Show No Signs of Keeping Migrants Out
New Coal Isn’t Old Coal
The Jewish Museum in Berlin – “Not a Guilt Trip”
Hispanic Poultry Workers Live in New Southern Slums
Saving the Sage Grouse
Report From Siberia: Making A Living
Tumpa: A Sex Worker of Calcutta
Anatomy Of A Gay Murder
Education in Cuba
Convicting the Wrong Man: Part Two of Two
Milestones: A Road Map to the Indian Middle Clas
Cracking An Unsolved Rape Case Makes History
A Diary of Danger on the Seas
The Third Grade Answer
An Ant’s Life. Surprise: No One’s in Charge
Masking the Face of Battle
The ‘Special Period’ In Cuba
Homophobic Killings in Texas
Women Entrepreneurs in Poland
Report From Siberia: Life in a Khanty Reindeer Camp
![At the Haitian National Penitentiary, Touchè Caman does outreach for Chans Altenativ. looking for deportees among the inmates. “I never thought I’d be going back into a prison after the last time,” he tells me laughing. “It’s a lot different on the other side [of the bars]. “Maybe Chans Altenativ can help a few of them when they get out.”](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DeCesare_Haiti01-300x204.jpg)
Haiti: Giving Hope a Second Chance
Continental Divide Trail
Oil Discovery Rocks the Caspian Sea
The Genius of One Caring Teacher
Good Times Fall On Hard Times In Mississippi
In the Name of the Father
Southern Schools Strain Under Immigrant Arrivals
Maquiladora Workers Get Homes of Their Own
Ida Tarbell: Learning to Dig
The HMOs That Make Money Off The Poor
Mentors Can Mean Magic
Bram Fischer’s Journey
Benazir and the Bomb
Real Nuns Don’t Wear Habits
Struggling to Change in Spite of the Odds
Letter from Baku, Azerbaijan
Nogales Plans to Rescue Children from Border Underworld
Selling Seniors on HMO’s
Doom Thy Neighbor: After Hiroshima and Nagasaki… Lahore and Bombay?
True Heroes
Maids
Messages from Underground
Ida Tarbell: A Reporter’s Life
Bridging Troubled Waters in Ambos Nogales
Benazir Bhutto: Comeback Kid?
Avenging Angels: Homegirl Survival Stories
