Confronted with crises and human suffering, what do you do? — We live in a society bombarding your mobile with millions of messages each second. They are not asking you to open your eyes and consider your role in fixing this deeply troubled world. When has a talking head streaming into your life said, “Isn’t it time we focused on the…

THE DEBATE TO ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS We welcome Wonder Woman, known to our readers as a superhero, friend to earth, and humanitarian from the island nation of Themyscira. We also welcome Bizarro Superman who is a homicidal maniac from the Bizarro world which, as our readers know, is where our doppelgangers exist only in pure evil…

By Dominic Cappello and Katherine Ortega Courtney, PhD We found ourselves discussing a Medium article by London-based Umair Haque titled Are Americans Just Terrible People? His equally forthright subtitle, “Do Americans Get How Weirdly Twisted and Cruel Their Society Has Become?” was certainly attention-grabbing and we could only shrug our…

I am in a restaurant writing as fast as I can, trying to capture every detail of a mother’s story in this liminal state of emerging from the pandemic. I live in a world of quantitative data, meaning that countywide surveys of parents reveal to our organization how families struggle…

Can a mural change the trajectory of society, ending historical trauma and health disparities? The mural is a symbol. If enough people believe the message painted on the wall, profound positive action can follow. The message New Mexicans are sending (and singing) is radically simple: 100% of our children and…

All the leaders of fifty states knew, going into the pandemic, that there were families lacking access to the vital services for survival that included medical care, behavioral health care, food security, housing security and transport to vital services. Historical disparities are not new nor newsworthy in the 24/7 news…

Diego López is an artist, filmmaker and director of the nonprofit Hands Across Cultures. …

A crisis unites earth The last time we had an all-eyes-of-the world-event was at 9/11, almost two decades ago. For about three days leaders in every county across the globe halted planes while the world’s residents stared at screens, sharing collectively a tragedy and asking, “Is this the start of a horrible domino effect…

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