All Perspectives
Riding with the wildlife rescuers: No creature too big, small, or wildWhen rescue facilities closed in Southern Arizona, Lisa Bates created her own wildlife animal hospital. Her Tucson Wildlife Center cares for 5,000 animals each year.
Readers RespondReaders write: Do we need a Peace Corps anymore?Letters to the editor for the November 8, 2021 weekly magazine. Readers discuss early memories of race and their Peace Corps experience.
Points of ProgressFrom rainforest to row houses, honoring rights to homeProgress roundup: Australia returns land to Indigenous residents, and in U.S. cities, aggregated data helps citizens curb urban blight and evictions.
Points of ProgressWays to weave a safety net: Free college and alternative justiceProgress roundup: Young adults aging out of foster care and repeat offenders needing treatment are two different groups targeted with more services.
Difference MakerThis East St. Louis grocer tends an oasis of uplift in a food desertAn East St. Louis corner store is a lifeline for residents who have to travel far to a supermarket for food. It鈥檚 also a hive of social connection.
Readers RespondReaders write: A forester's perspective on carbon offsetsLetters to the editor for the November 1, 2021 weekly magazine. Readers discuss聽carbon sequestration efforts聽and creating interfaith community.
Points of ProgressConserving species and specimens, from tuna to treesIn our progress roundup, conservation measures are looking after an Italian tree with connections to St. Francis, and tunas fished around the world.
Difference MakerMariachi singer turns loss into love for arts 鈥� and communityMariachi singer Veronica Robles channeled the loss of her daughter into the creation of a cultural center that fortifies Boston鈥檚 immigrant community.
Finding what more we can all doIn publishing our Finding Resilience series, we鈥檙e making a statement: Out of turmoil, resilience is essential to progress.
Points of ProgressProtecting the 鈥楢mazon of Europe鈥� and a small Aussie bandicootAnimal gains: Our progress roundup includes a healthier marsupial, an animal-testing ban in Mexico, and a new UNESCO, five-nation biosphere reserve.
Lessons from Nuremberg, 75 years onPhilippe Sands, the son of a Holocaust survivor, and聽Horst von W盲chter, the son of a Nazi, are both trying to understand their family history.
Readers RespondReaders write: Electric cars vs. sustainable mobilityLetters to the editor for the October 18, 2021 weekly magazine. Readers discuss talking to strangers and electric vehicles.
Difference Maker脡l茅onore Laloux helps France see disability differently脡l茅onore Laloux 鈥� the first elected official with Down syndrome in France 鈥� is proving that her unique perspective is an asset to her town.
Angela Merkel鈥檚 true superpower: Pragmatism.Angela Merkel's brilliance has roots in a German-style pragmatism.聽She was always in the middle, but that doesn鈥檛 mean she was always a moderate.聽
Points of ProgressLeaded gas dies. And carbon-free fusion power inches closer.Progress roundup: Clean energy and air are featured in three briefs this week. In Iceland, the world鈥檚 largest carbon capture plant is up and running.
Truth-telling and a path to healingThe聽Walnut Street Bridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was the site of a horrendous lynching in 1906. A new memorial hopes to tell the full story.
Points of ProgressNew respect for Black hair in Illinois, and for Josephine Baker in FranceProgress roundup: A preschooler鈥檚 mom who braided her son鈥檚 hair and the family of a Jazz Age icon both made their cases for respect 鈥� and won.
Readers RespondReaders write: America's exit from AfghanistanLetter to the editor for the October 4, 2021 weekly magazine. A reader discusses the desire to place blame following the fall of Kabul.聽
Difference MakerWhen prison doors swing open, these mentors open their armsSociety often treats formerly incarcerated people as broken. At the Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, they find healing together.
Points of ProgressTaking better care of people: Silver Alerts, non-English driver鈥檚 testsIn our progress roundup, Arizona includes intellectual disabilities in its Silver Alerts, and Namibia recognizes native tongues in its driver鈥檚 test.
