In the past few weeks, the Biden administration’s domestic agenda has come into sharp focus: a bipartisan Senate bill for physical and environmental infrastructure projects nearing passage; new statistics showing that COVID-19 relief has dramatically reduced poverty across demographic groups; an executive order aimed at concentrated market power, promoting competition…

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I worked with a group of friends and colleagues to advocate drug decriminalization, harm reduction, and criminal justice reform. I helped progressive Congressperson Maxine Waters organize civil rights leaders to advocate for needle exchange so that heroin users wouldnt get HIV-AIDS. I fought…

As the delta variant contributes to a surge of Covid-19 cases around the United States, different voices have emerged blaming people entering the country in particular, migrants crossing the U.S. border for the spread. Among the most vocal are Republican Govs. Greg Abbott in Texas and Ron DeSantis in Florida.…

After another year darkened by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Montréal Pride Festival has brought some vibrancy back into the city’s streets.  Overtaking the Village since Monday, this year’s edition of festival programming has offered guests a mixed bag of in-person and online events celebrating 2SLGBTQI+ communities under the theme Together…

And the new figures show something else: The cities and towns in the northern part of the state are growing faster than those in the south, reversing a trend seen in the previous decade. There were population gains in Providence County, including cities such as Central Falls (up 16.6 percent),…

Good morning. The situation in Afghanistan has been likened to the fall of Saigon, as officials confirmed on Friday that the Taliban had captured the countrys second-biggest city, Kandahar, as well as Lashkar Gah in the south. The Pentagon announced on Thursday it would send three battalions, about 3,000 soldiers,…

Overall, the regions population grew by 12.9 percent to 6.6 million, less than in past decades. Loudoun County led Northern Virginia and the metro area with an increase of 38.4 percent, while in the Maryland suburbs of D.C., Howard County grew the most, 15.8 percent. Keeping with national trends that…

As Mexico looks back on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, an award-winning filmmaker wants his fellow Mexicans and others to confront their national identity and re-examine how the legacy of colonial history still impacts people today. Nationalism tells you where you come from so it…

Journalists across NPR are now tracking the demographics of their sources in real time thanks to a new piece of software that launched last month. Dubbed Dex (after Rolodex), the tool is attached to NPRs content management system. For each story, reporters, producers, correspondents and editors submit information about their…

Amara La Negra has a magnetic quality that’s followed her from her days as a child performer on the famed Spanish-language variety show Sábado Gigante to VH1’s Love & Hip Hop: Miami, where she quickly became a breakout star. When she talks, people tend to listen — and she’s continually…