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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
The Conservatism of Henry Kissinger
The End of European Peasantry
Doug Wilder’s Campaign
The Inner Workings of Dictatorship
The Hmong’s Blue Ridge Refuge
Child Poverty in Chicago
A Clash of Cultures
The Godfather of American Conservatism
A Road For Rhenigidale
Another America
Resettling the Hmong
The Farm Crisis
Barry Goldwater’s Curious Campaign
The Failure of Plenty
Argentina’s Dirty War
Life in the Black Belt
Saving Steel
Waking up on the Moon: The Hmong in America
Child Poverty in America: The Homeless Families
The Origins of Conservative Foreign Policy
The Modernization of Pepe Lopez
The Path of Black Political Power
City Without a Pulse
Tempting the Medicine Freaks
Solving the Problem of Meaning
The Kenilworth Estates
The Captured Documents
Rebuilding Bethlehem Steel
Inventing The SAT
Thinking About Thinking
High-Rise Hell
Dissent in the Foreign Service
The Demise of Big Steel
Taking The SAT
Eurisko, the Computer with a Mind of its Own
Inside the Manila Embassy
Schooled for Failure
Testing Teachers
The Lure of Artificial Intelligence
Ronald Reagan’s Foreign Service
Faces of the 80s
The Monkey Trial: Round Two
Bombed, Burned, and Boycotted
The Law Firm That Asbestos Built
A Nation In Transition…Farming
The Politics of Textbooks
Downwind Deals
Dark Side of the Chip
Thought Control
Separate But Unequal
Living With Risk
The Electronic Workplace
Faces of the 80s America, A Nation in Transition
The End of the Soviet Empire
Nothing Fails Like Success
Looking at the Old South Through Hazel Eyes
