Niki Gianni, DVM is the veterinarian at Ravenswood Animal Hospital LLC in Chicago, IL. She is a 2019 graduate of the University of Illinois School of Veterinary Medicine.Crystal Heath, DVM is a shelter veterinarian, the Executive Director of the non-profit vet... More »
Chicago’s Preschool for All initiative, a universal preschool program that promises access to full-day preschool in community centers and Chicago Public Schools for all Chicago 4-year-olds, is currently in its first year of fully-fledged implementation. The pr... More »
While the EU carbon price recently broke the symbolic threshold of 100 euros per ton, China’s carbon market has been hovering at around seven euros per ton. This huge discrepancy creates an advantage for non-EU exporters as they don’t need to bear the high pri... More »
Cory Doctorow is an activist and science fiction writer. He was the co-editor of the blog Boing Boing and has served in various roles at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil rights group. He holds an honorary doctorate in Computer Science fro... More »
Hours before President Biden visited Pittsburgh in January 2022 to speak on infrastructure reform, one of the city’s major bridges collapsed—sending a bus and several cars down in the wreckage. The collapse injured at least ten people that morning, but Pittsbu... More »
The United Nations (UN) held two flagship conferences of the parties (COP) at the end of 2022 to discuss a wide range of environment-related issues. The UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) engaged stakeholders from different areas in government, academia, NGOs,... More »
Americans have both celebrated and denounced immigration since the country’s founding. George Washington wrote in 1788: “I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation t... More »
Each new military paradigm and technological development promises new legal and policy questions. Every innovation in weaponry brings new range, cost, and training while impacting civilian life, posing new questions to the leaders of the day. The Constitution ... More »
In the past two years, the Biden Administration has enacted major policies to increase the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law allocates $7.5 billion to develop and improve domestic EV charging infrastruc... More »
Isabeau Dasho is the Assistant director of the Harris Writing Workshop and new mom.Co-authored by Megan Sanders.Recently I attended the “Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery” exhibit at the Chicago Field Museum. It was deft, approachable, and well handled. The curat... More »
Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also appointed in Philosophy. Professor Vallor’s research explores how new techn... More »
As each subsequent state legalizes marijuana for recreational and medical use, its inclusion in the already ineffective drug war becomes increasingly redundant. The American public agrees, with about 88% of respondents favoring some form of legalization, and 5... More »