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Douglas Remley / Smithsonian How a Museum Captures African American History
A floor-by-floor preview of the Smithsonian’s National African American Museum of History and Culture
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Bebeto Matthews / AP Where Charter-School Suspensions Are Concentrated
Many cities are rethinking how they discipline students, but old practices remain in some neighborhoods.
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Susan Walsh / AP The Hidden Epidemic of Teen Hunger
Food insecurity has become normalized among American adolescents—who are also particularly vulnerable to its risks.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters How Beijing’s New Residency System Favors the Elite
China’s capital is instituting a process for migrants to call the city their home. But who does it really benefit?
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Amy Harris / AP No Prison for Big Freedia
The New Orleans Bounce music legend has been caught in the crosshairs of the city’s complicated housing policies.
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Carlos Osorio / AP The Most Segregating School-District Borders in America
A new report identifies 50 places where schools are geographically adjacent but resourcefully juxtaposed.
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Markus Schreiber / AP Germany's Radical, Pro-Refugee Urban-Planning Experiment
A look at the country's burgeoning "arrival cities"
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP A Former Palo Alto City Planner on Silicon Valley’s Housing Mess
”People look around and think, ‘Boy, things are expensive.’ They don’t realize that they’re expensive because of decisions that the local government makes.”
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Robb Williamson / AECOM How to Pack Up After Your Olympic Games
What happens to all those stadiums?
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Anthony DelMundo / Reuters Why Kindergarteners Might Still Be Suspended in New York City
Mayor de Blasio’s proposed “ban” on the disciplinary measure may not be a ban at all.
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Bruno Kelly / Reuters Rio’s Techno-Utopian Future for the Rich
How the city’s vision for a networked infrastructure system will make its inequality problem worse
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Ricardo Moraes / Reuters Rio's Olympic Subway Boondoggle
How a $3.1-billion project is a boon for Rio's richest
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Sergio Moraes / Reuters The Trouble With Rio's Police
Olympic security rests in part on a force that's been killing civilians at an increasing rate.
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Luc Legay / Flickr Paris: Where a Mistake Bloomed Into a Park
Miles of abandoned railway tracks give the city a rare chance to experiment with public spaces.
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Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters The Underground Legacy of World War II
More than 300 unexploded bombs are hiding beneath one German city.
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Ryan McGinnis / Getty Uber, but for Rural Nebraska
A company aims to bring ridesharing to places where it can take hours to run errands without a car.
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Phil Noble / Reuters What’s the British Equivalent of ‘Moving to Canada’?
It might actually be moving to Canada.
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Neil Hall / Reuters The Brexit Debate Takes a Dark Turn
There’s only so much nastiness a country can endure before it curdles into actual violence.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The North Carolina High-Schoolers Fighting Deportation
The detainment of six Central-American youth who came to the U.S. as unaccompanied minors was a policy decision—one that local students, teachers, and activists argued was categorically unfair.
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Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters Paris to London’s Businesses: If Brexit Happens, Come Here
French business leaders look to grab a share of British finance
