Anthropological studies show the potential impact of community care and creative policies in improving health care in Puerto Rico.
Six Reasons to Save Archaeology From Funding CutsAmidst government plans to drastically reduce funding for archaeology programs in the U.K., an archaeologist explains what the discipline has to offer students—and our societies.
What’s Behind the U.S. War on Science?President Biden’s administration has promised to reinsert science into government decision-making. An anthropologist looks to Finland to argue that solutions must go far beyond reversing Trump’s policies.
Deaf and Incarcerated in the U.S.An anthropologist investigates how U.S. prison policies systematically deny deaf incarcerated people adequate access to hearing aids—severely hindering their sensory engagement and quality of life.
How to Survive Climate Change in the India-Bangladesh BorderlandsAs erosion and rising waters threaten the Sundarbans, an anthropologist advocates for new, bottom-up approaches to living in a changing landscape.
Why We Need a Truth Commission on White SupremacyThe U.S. should learn from transitional justice initiatives in other countries and implement a formal plan to reckon with the deeply harmful legacies of racism and European colonialism.
Must Conservation and Indigenous Rights Clash?As over 50 countries sign on to the “Thirty by Thirty” plan that would set land aside from human use, some scholars worry about its effects on marginalized communities.
What Makes Vaccines Social?Some people are wary of or may refuse vaccines. Social scientists are part of a movement to encourage self-empowerment to end the current pandemic.
Waterloo-Redfern and the Racism Rooted in CitiesProtestors toppling statues spur an anthropologist to look at the underlying urban politics that reproduce colonial and racist systems in Australia’s Waterloo-Redfern housing plans.
