Community
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Business
In Hospitals, Affordable Housing Gets the Long-Term Investor It Needs
Health care systems and affordable housing developers have a mutual financial interest in helping communities live healthier.
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Magazine
What Is Black Love Day?
On Feb. 13, 1993, Ayo Handy-Kendi, a community organizer and native of Washington, D.C., created the holiday to celebrate communal love and pride in being “unapologetically Black.”
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World
Will Detroit’s Comeback Benefit Detroiters?
I found it online: a weary, five-bedroom American Foursquare house on a block in Detroit that had seen better days. The blue tarp over the roof didn’t scare me. (It should have.) Neither did the price: $44,000, which would barely purchase a parking ...
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World
Dr. John A. Talbott, Champion of Care for the Mentally Ill, Dies at 88
A psychiatrist and a prolific author, he criticized what he referred to as a “nonsystem” that left vulnerable people on the streets to fend for themselves.
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World
Killing of Mexico’s First Nonbinary Magistrate Alarms L.G.B.T.Q. Community
The violent death of Jesús Ociel Baena and suggestions by the authorities that it was a domestic killing have angered advocates who are demanding a thorough investigation.
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Business
As Coal Plants Shutter, a Chance to Redevelop ‘the Gates of Hell’
After the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company flipped the switch on its sprawling new Avon Lake site in 1926, the brick behemoth, then one of the world’s largest coal-fired power plants, helped usher in a new era of regional economic growth in ...
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World
Securing Captives’ Freedom Is a Higher Jewish Value Than Revenge
Israel is a small country. Everyone I know knows somebody who was killed or affected by the excruciating events of the past week. In my case, it is a family friend from our synagogue, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a dual American-Israeli citizen, who was at ...
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World
Two People Killed in Knife Attack at Muslim Center in Lisbon
The police shot and wounded the assailant at the Ismaili Center in Portugal’s capital. His motive was not immediately clear.
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World
Seeking Heat, and Companionship, in a Hard Scotland Winter
In a Glasgow neighborhood, the cost-of-living crisis is exacerbating energy problems and financial worries, and vital community hubs are struggling to stay afloat.
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World
A Look Inside New York’s Swirling Kaleidoscope of Faiths
New York City is a place of maximum diversity in minimum space, to borrow a phrase from the writer Milan Kundera. Its spiritual communities are no exception. Last year, the Public Religion Research Institute underscored this in a first-of-its-kind ...
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