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.
The ability and willingness to read has always enabled upward social mobility. Reading is a…
“Facts matter” flashes across screens constantly as an important contrast to the swirl of misinformation…
Forty million Americans have communication disorders, according to the American Speech Language Hearing Association. That…
The nomination of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s vice president has sent Republicans into a…
The combination of two recent Supreme Court rulings—one allowing public funds to be allocated to parochial…
This country is experiencing a long overdue reckoning. George Floyd’s murder seemed a tipping point,…
Like so many others, I do everything from home these days. And consequently, I rarely…
Last weekend, the country lost a man who fought for voting rights, for justice, for…
In recent weeks, Facebook groups have imploded and splintered to form new explicitly anti-racist groups. Fandoms are divided online…
As I trek my usual trail in Rochester, NY, I see golden leaves pressed to…
Yesterday I received a consult about a transgender patient who was suicidal. The team had…
As the nation navigates protests following the brutal murder of George Floyd, many white people…
While many claim home feels like a prison these days, it most assuredly is not.…
More than once in the last three years, I’ve gotten lost in West Wing binges…
Five years ago, my home city of Arlington experienced a major drilling accident. During fracking operations,…
