Public Voices
The OpEd Project’s Public Voices Fellowship is a national initiative to dramatically increase the public impact of our nation’s top underrepresented thinkers, and to ensure our ideas help shape the important conversations of our age.
It’s 3 a.m. in the emergency department (ED), and an elderly homeless man sits quietly…
On a warmer-than-usual December evening 2.5 years ago, I went into premature labor at 24…
As the temperatures dipped below freezing in Chicago, my family and I braved the cold…
I’m Ananda P. Dasanayake from New York City. I left Sri Lanka in 1987 but…
“It is time to deliver…the sound you hear is the ticking clock. We are in…
Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court of The United States’ In re Gault case declared that youth…
Roughly eight years ago, I received a strange call from a national lab where I…
Access to science education and safe living environments for all are my goals. Ted Cruz came for me.
It was just before 10 p.m. as I fumbled for my car key in the…
Twenty-five years ago, 911 became the national number for emergencies. Today, it covers 96% of the geographic United…
It’s almost Halloween and, this year, I have already been given a real fright. Former…
As a young girl living in the New Jersey suburbs in the 1990s, I ran…
A meaningful display of intersectionality took place during the women’s NCAA basketball finals and WNBA…
With the country at the precipice of potentially electing the country’s first Black and South…
With the end of his presidency fast approaching, there is no better time for President…
In November 2023, I was introduced to AI through my son, Brandon, the millennial who…
