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The eastern black rail, a subspecies of bird that’s scattered in clusters along America’s eastern coastlines, is one of the most elusive creatures a wildlife biologist can choose to study. Adults are the size of a human hand, and are dark and shy,…

The Future of Conservation Is Basically Shazam for Wildlife

Chronic pain is both one of the world’s most costly medical problems, affecting one in every five people, and one of the most mysterious. In the past two decades, however, discoveries about the crucial role played by glia — a set of nervous system…

The Quiet Scientific Revolution That May Solve Chronic Pain

BEASTS BEFORE US The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution By Elsa Panciroli Richard Owen loathed small mammals, calling them “ratlike, shrewlike forms of the most stupid and unintelligent order of sucklers.” That wouldn’t have mattered if…

The Runty Prehistoric Mammals That Outlasted the Dinosaurs

BOTTLE OF LIES The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom Who would ever guess that Gandhi helped start an industry whose corruption now plagues us all? Yet here he is, early in Katherine Eban’s “Bottle of Lies,” barefoot in his Ahmedabad ashram,…

A New Book Argues That Generic Drugs Are Poisoning Us

As winters grow warmer in North America, thirsty ticks are on the move. We found the moose calf half an hour in. He lay atop thin snow on a gentle slope sheltered by the boughs of a big, black spruce, curled up as a dog would on a couch. He had…

Climate Change Enters Its Blood-Sucking Phase

Sheila Advento was not feeling well. It was July 6, 2003, and her mother’s house in northern New Jersey was filled with people. Sheila and her mom were there, along with Sheila’s boyfriend, sister, and brother-in-law—a slice of a huge extended…

The Devastating Allure of Medical Miracles

Some medical experiments are more daunting than others. The one that the neurologist Helen Mayberg came up with to test a model of depression she had developed over about 15 years involved drilling two holes in the top of a patient’s skull and…

Why a ‘Lifesaving’ Depression Treatment Didn’t Pass Clinical Trials

Feature stories, read aloud: Download the Audm app for your iPhone. I. The Fabric of Reality By the time Nev Jones entered DePaul University's esteemed doctoral program in philosophy, she had aced virtually every course she ever took, studied five…

The Touch of Madness

(“The Evolution of Beauty” by Richard Prum was selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2017. For the rest of the list, click here.) For readers, Charles Darwin, born in 1809, apparently never gets old. Books by Darwin…

Survival of the Prettiest

A few years ago, Gene Robinson, of Urbana, Illinois, asked some associates in southern Mexico to help him kidnap some 1,000 newborns. For their victims they chose bees. Half were European honeybees, Apis mellifera ligustica, the sweet-tempered kind…

The Social Life of Genes

Frustrated by the failures in his field, Tom Insel, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, is now trying to reduce the world’s anguish through the devices in people’s pockets. Sometime around 2010, about two-thirds of the way…

The Smartphone Psychiatrist

David Dobbs extols a history of New York's Bellevue hospital, a crucible of discovery in medicine. To many Americans, the name Bellevue signifies 'psychiatric facility' as much as Bedlam does to Britons. The psychiatric unit of the New York City…

Public health: Gore and glory

From the day Christian Guardino was born, his mother, Elizabeth, knew that something was wrong with his eyes. They would jiggle and jerk and roll up into his head. One eye turned inward. When she fed him, instead of gazing up at her, Christian would…

Why There’s New Hope About Ending Blindness

Sara Bostock once sent me a picture of her and her daughter Cecily in happier times, and it’s a happy shot indeed: mother and daughter, 40-something and 20-something, outdoors in the sun, looking radiant. With their beaming smiles—the same smile,…

The Human Cost of a Misleading Drug-Safety Study

“Soon enough,” Alice Dreger writes at the beginning of her romp of a book, “I will get to the death threats, the sex charges, the alleged genocides, the epidemics, the alien abductees, the anti-lesbian drug, the unethical ethicists, the fight with…

‘Galileo’s Middle Finger,’ by Alice Dreger

Of Christine Kenneally’s father’s father — a man neither Kenneally nor her father ever knew, a man who did the deed requisite to reproduction and promptly vanished — she asks, “Did he leave anything more significant than the loud bang of a door shut…

Christine Kenneally’s ‘Invisible History of the Human Race’

In his 2007 book “A Farewell to Alms,” the economic historian Gregory Clark argued that the English came to rule the world largely because their rich outbred their poor, and thus embedded their superior genes and values throughout the nation. In her…

The Fault in Our DNA

To understand the violent criminal, says Richard E. Tremblay, imagine a 2-year-old boy doing the things that make the terrible twos terrible — grabbing, kicking, pushing, punching, biting. Now imagine him doing all this with the body and resources of…

Terrible Twos Who Stay Terrible

The United States Food and Drug Administration is not known for its prose. So the warning letter that it sent to 23andMe, the direct-to-consumer genetic-testing company, on November 22nd, was a surprise in more ways than one. “It reads like the…

The F.D.A. vs. Personal Genetic Testing

On average, about 700 Americans kill themselves each week — but in the fine-weather weeks of May and June, the toll rises closer to 800, sometimes higher. Every year, suicide peaks with the tulips and lilacs — increasing roughly 15 percent over the…

Clues in the Cycle of Suicide

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En Estados Unidos se están registrando aumentos dramáticos en depresión y enfermedades mentales entre las adolescentes, pero las redes sociales y la pandemia han empeorado aún más los desafíos para las latinas y otras jóvenes de color. La terapia…

Para las Adolescentes Latinas, un Costo Mental

Teen girls across the U.S. are experiencing dramatic increases in depression and mental illness, but social media and the pandemic have compounded the challenges for Latinas and other girls of color. Culturally competent therapy, whole-child…

For Latina Teens, a Mental Toll

A majority of eligible Education Week employees on Nov. 1 voted to unionize and be represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild in a 32-to-15 vote governed by rules of the National Labor Relations Board. The union will represent 55 employees in…

EdWeek Employees Vote to Form a Union

Young adults in the United States experience anxiety and depression twice as frequently as teenagers, according to a new nationally representative survey by Making Caring Common, a project of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Live…

Young adults suffer from anxiety, depression twice as often as teens

In my quarter-century as a journalist, I’ve seen many media business models come and go. Each new idea brought with it the hope that this new business structure — or funder or technological development — would be the thing to save journalism. Would…

Hey Journalists, Nobody Is Coming to Save Us

Students’ experience of physical and emotional safety is crucial to their ability to learn, understand abstract concepts and advance educationally, according to psychological and neuroscience research Editor’s note: This story is part of the “Safe to…

Students Need Safety to Learn

La experiencia de seguridad física y emocional de los estudiantes es fundamental para potenciar su capacidad de aprendizaje, de compresión de conceptos abstractos y para avanzar en su educación, según investigaciones de la psicología y la…

Los Estudiantes Necesitan Seguridad para Poder Aprender

Independent journalist American school districts find professional development in a variety of places and formats. Sometimes, a local university or former public school employee will provide consulting on an informal basis. Or the district contracts…

Several organizations dominate equity-oriented training for big school districts

Independent journalist Tampa, home of the nation’s seventh-largest school district, offers a glimpse into the country’s multiracial future: White students make up less than a third of students, Hispanic students another 38%, Black students 21% and…

​​Schools spend billions on training so every student can succeed. They don’t know if it works

I have a magic trick to offer newsroom leaders: How would you like to pay freelancers more without increasing your budget? It’s possible. And it’s important, especially at a time when newsrooms are increasingly relying on freelance labor. Let me…

How to Pay Freelancers More Without Increasing Your Newsroom Budget

Listen to this article: Whether you’re watching a YouTube video to perfect a cake-decorating pattern or attending community-college classes to learn Spanish, you’re doing more than just adding a new skill to your repertoire. Lifelong learning also…

13 Creative Ways to Learn Something New

When Mike Jay, 61, first met and fell in love with his wife Jenny 12 years ago, they were at similar stages in life: divorced, raising kids and building careers. She was 10 years younger, but it didn’t seem much of a difference. Now that retirement…

How to Navigate May-December Marriages at Retirement Time

The transition to online learning in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic was, by many accounts, a failure. While there were some bright spots across the country, the transition was messy and uneven — countless teachers had neither the…

The Education System Isn’t Ready for Another Widespread Closure

In their seventies, Leah and Allan Lipman lived an idyllic retired life. Summers in their longtime Buffalo, N.Y., home, winters in Boynton Beach, Fla. They drove back and forth, and relied on various services and individuals to care for their lawn…

Why an Entourage is a Key Investment for Retirement

The latest cycle of media layoffs and downsizing has made me very popular. As a full-time independent journalist for the past 15 years, I’ve grown accustomed to the unexpected call or text from a newly unemployed colleague asking me how to launch a…

Is Freelancing Right For You?

The first few months of parenting hit hard for Easar Forghany and Melody Kim. Their baby, Cora, cried for hours as they took turns soothing her. “We were losing our minds. The first three months was really tough on our relationship and my own…

How to babyproof your relationship

Here are some expert tips to help you make the most of the remaining days with your beloved pet. When Is It Time? It’s what all pet owners dread: making the decision to euthanize a pet. Take the time to consider the pet’s quality of life and…

How to Say Goodbye to a Pet

Animal friends are good for our health — but caring for senior pets comes with challenges. Experts share tips for supporting your best pals through their golden years. Listen to this article: Anne Diffily’s closest relationship during the pandemic —…

How to Care for An Aging Pet

Stark findings on the pervasive sadness, suicidal thoughts and sexual violence endured by teen girls have jolted parents and the wider public Gift Article clarification After publication of this article, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

The crisis in American girlhood

Un programa de secundaria en Los Ángeles lleva a los estudiantes al cambiante mundo de la arquitectura Antes de unirse al programa de preparación de arquitectura en la Universidad del Sur de California en su primer año de secundaria, Elida Mejía…

Construyendo un Futuro Prometedor

"I'm emotionally exhausted." That's what Jonathan Van Ness — activist and beloved star of the Netflix show "Queer Eye" — said to actor and "Armchair Expert" podcast host Dax Shepard last week. And it was a sentiment that's continued to resonate among…

Jonathan Van Ness Shouldn't Have to Defend Trans Rights; Here's What You Need to Know

Dive Brief: New York City could spark the production of roughly 300,000 additional new housing units over a decade by implementing certain policies to make it cheaper and easier to build, according to a new report from research group RAND Corp. The…

Reforms could add 300K housing units to New York City over 10 years: report

Dive Brief: Actions that aim to lower the cost and increase the supply of housing were announced by the Biden administration last week. The measures include an $85 million grant program to help communities remove local policy barriers to housing…

New housing crisis measures announced by Biden administration

Dive Brief: Police play a significant role in U.S. cities’ approach to homelessness, both in policymaking and in policy implementation, according to a brief released in May by Boston University’s Initiative on Cities and Cornell University. Police…

Police are shaping and enforcing homelessness policies. It’s making the problem worse, researchers say.

Brigitte Bandit and her fellow Austin, TX, drag performers have taken extra precautions when heading to shows in recent months. She and others in the drag community have been the target of false claims and anti-trans legislation lobbed by…

These Trans Drag Performers Continue to Do What They Love — Despite the Risks

The housing crisis explained in one tweet

One day, Americans will reckon with the amount of insane bullying directed at a single person

In the last year, Taylor has also provided massive mainstream platforms for many lesbian, queer, Black artists and dancers on her eras tour. And she casted a trans man as her love interest (w/o making it about him being trans) during her Lavender…

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Random question: Does the IRS owe her a stimulus check?

My sizzling HOT TAKE on the first day of #Pride2023 is being trans is good and correct and everyone who disagrees is wrong and should reconsider their biases and world views 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Politician: I don’t think trans people should exist and I will pass laws that take a way their rights. 

Trans person: I exist and believe I should have rights. Medical consensus agrees. My humanity should not be up for debate.

Moderate: both sides…

Sincere question: In drag ban states, would WWE's Seth Rollins be legal? https://t.co/vVMAtlBL00

My @TheAtlantic debut! Couldn’t have asked for a better assignment.

Landon was supposed to be at her high-school graduation on Saturday. Instead, she was preparing to travel to Washington, D.C. By Monday, the 17-year-old from Gulfport, Mississippi, was wearing a long, sleek blue dress and dancing in front of the U.S.…

A Trans Prom on the Capitol Lawn

Two lessons here: 1) corporations really do not give a shit about trans and gay people. 

2) You can get what you want if enough people join in on a collective temper tantrum.

The Trans Kids Who Threw Their Own Prom

Such an amazing experience watching that show from the floor! Thank you Taylor! https://t.co/6okpAVTig5

As critical as it is for businesses to upgrade software to keep up with ever-changing business technology, it’s just as important to fully think through the level of disruption that comes with the change.

Salesforce decisions - keeping everyone in mind

Radical Candor author Kim Scott on why exceptional leadership means giving honest feedbackKim Scott’s goal is to rid the world of bad bosses. Nobody, at least in her experience, sets out to say, “I really want to suck.” But unfortunately, it happens.…

If you don’t have anything nice to say, say it anyway.

Rosetree Solutions helps clients harness the cloud to meet their needs through the power of the Salesforce® platform. The company’s personal cloud solution, though, is Salesforce and Skuid. Meet Craig Rosenbaum, Rosetree Solutions managing partner.…

Rosetree Solutions conquers the cloud with Skuid and Salesforce.

Not everyone at IBM is a designer. But Charlie Hill, the company’s newly-appointed, first-ever Design Fellow, wants every employee there to think like one.More than 60 years ago, IBM started one of the first corporate design departments in the world.…

How IBM is re-establishing itself as a design-centered company

Catalyzing widespread change in the enterprise isn’t easy. Even making a small adjustment to a single process can be a year-long project. Organizational politics, time and cost limitations, and unending backlogs stall innovation time and again. No…

Drive innovation by design.

As the leading global brand in the logistics industry, DHL offers a comprehensive portfolio of services all over the world, international and domestic parcel delivery, e-commerce shipping and fulfillment solutions, international express, road, air…

DHL redefines how to do logistics with a web-based application

Yesterday, Skuid’s senior director of product experience, Shannon Hale, hosted a Reddit Expert AMA (Ask Me Anything). For anyone who isn’t familiar with the channel, the AMA is one of Reddit’s mainstream features where experts put themselves on the…

Skuid product, design, dev pro Shannon Hale hosts Reddit expert AMA.

“There’s an illusion called the Newspaper Tear and Restore,” says Jared Spool, an expert on user experience (UX) and co-founder of the UX design school Center Centre, located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. “The version you’ve probably seen is called the…

What UX designers could learn from magicians

With the latest Skuid release, Skuid Millau, customers can now connect to all their DocuSign data and display it in Skuid apps, without writing any code. We got the chance to interview Ron Hirson, DocuSign’s chief product officer, about the evolution…

How DocuSign is simplifying the process of trust

Michelle Killebrew knows a little something about digital transformation. She led the strategy for the social business division at IBM, where she expanded the product line from 89 to more than 400 products to help the company’s clients understand and…

From food to software: why you need digital transformation

Kim Lenox is the director of product design at LinkedIn, where she’s been since 2014. Before that, she was a design management consultant, the director of user experience (UX) at LUNAR Design, and the senior manager of interaction design at Palm,…

How LinkedIn is changing the way we do business

In her last job, Raffaela Rein tried to build an innovation lab for a large company. Her goal was to hire 150 developers and user experience (UX) designers. She soon found, though, that trying to hire so many people with such high-demand talent was a…

Good design is no longer optional.

Each week, you’ll read stories on how to innovate faster, the pains of growing a startup and digital transformation, and on maintaining company culture. We will connect the latest thinking from business leaders on why and how to drive human-centered…

Crossing the chasm in the enterprise, part I

This major financial software company creates business and financial management solutions for small businesses, consumers, and accounting professionals. When the company made a major decision to transition from a “box software” company to a…

Major financial software company transforms its sales process in eight weeks using Skuid.

Last week, we talked with Geoffrey Moore about digital transformation. In part two of our discussion, Moore talks about how marketing in the tech industry has transformed from business-to-business (B2B), to business-to-consumer (B2C), to…

Crossing the chasm in the enterprise, part 2

“I feel like there’s someone in this room who needs to be saved,” hollered the old, red-faced, preacher. I looked around the congregation, praying that it might be someone other than me. Of course, it wasn’t. I was the only Jew in that tiny, country…

Stranger in a Strange Land

#SongbirdsFoundation #SongbirdsRadioHour #Kyshona(First aired on WUTC 5/13/23)Artist. Activist. Music Therapist Gone Rogue.Kyshona is an artist ignited by untold stories, and the capacity of those stories to thread connection in every community.With…

Kyshona — Songbirds Radio Hour

#SongbirdsFoundation #SongbirdsRadioHour #mariachi (First aired on WUTC 4/8/23)We’ve partnered with the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera for this episode of The Songbirds Radio Hour. Here on Episode 7, we talk with Mexican-American conductor Ismael…

Mariachi Aventurero & Ismael Sandoval — Songbirds Radio Hour

#SongbirdsFoundation #SongbirdsRadioHour #MusicMakerFoundation(First aired on WUTC 3/11/23)For more than a quarter-century, the Music Maker Foundation has tended the roots of American music. Based in Hillsborough, North Carolina, this nonprofit…

Music Making with Ardie Dean & Charles "Sugar Harp" Burroughs

#SongbirdsFoundation #SongbirdsRadioHour #JohnMcEuen(First aired on WUTC 2/11/23)In this episode, we talked with folk musician and founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John McEuen, about his career, his new book, and the 50th anniversary of…

John McEuen from The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band — Songbirds Radio Hour

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Why The Democrats Impeached President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump’s decision to remove the former ambassador to Ukraine from her post over bad-faith smears dramatically undermined U.S. efforts to fight corruption worldwide, she told Congress in a public impeachment hearing Friday…

Marie Yovanovitch Explains How Trump Opened The Door For Corruption

Democrats made major gains in state-level elections across the country on Tuesday, revealing President Donald Trump’s weakness in even the reddest of states and putting the lie to the idea of a massive voter backlash against House Democrats’…

Democrats Rack Up Election Wins In The South Ahead Of 2020

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President Donald Trump believes in a conspiracy theory. His belief in it explains the scandal that could lead to his impeachment.
Specifically, the president is convinced that the Democratic National…

Donald Trump Is Pressuring U.S. Allies To Endorse His Favorite Conspiracy Theory

The complaint reportedly concerns a series of actions involving Trump, including a July 25 phone call during which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his 2020 political rival Joe Biden. The White House released a…

Congress Has Trump Whistleblower Complaint. Some Lawmakers Want You To See It, Too.

The former National Security Agency subcontractor should have used “other avenues available for somebody whose conscience was stirred and thought that they needed to question government actions,” then-President Barack Obama claimed in an August 2013…

The Trump Whistleblower Scandal Is Proving Edward Snowden Right

President Donald Trump had gotten off scot-free. ”A great day for me,” he declared on July 24. Former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony about Trump’s alleged obstruction of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election had…

Donald Trump Is Asking A Foreign Country To Help Him Win. Again.

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Democratic candidates met for a debate one day after the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. During his opening statement, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, in the 21st-century “West Wing” style he’s…

Actually, Pete Buttigieg, Sept. 12, 2001, Was Bad

WASHINGTON ― Jeffrey Clark, the 30-year-old man federal agents arrested here Friday after he called the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting a “dry run” and his relatives worried he might try to launch a race war, wasn’t shy about being a neo-Nazi.
In April…

DC Neo-Nazi Who Called Pittsburgh Murders A ‘Dry Run’ Arrested; Has Deep Ties To ‘Alt Right’

Democrats swept key state legislative and gubernatorial races across the country Tuesday, ensuring that at least 42 million more Americans will live under unified Democratic governance of their states next year and opening the door for sweeping…

Democrats Made Big Gains At The State Level Tuesday

Democrats may be ecstatic that they retook the House of Representatives, but their decisive victory conceals a harsher reality: It took a landslide in the popular vote to get them here, and they are projected to lose seats in the Senate.
Those facts…

U.S. Election Rules Doomed Democrats’ Chances Of Taking The Senate

Rudy Giuliani can’t get his story straight on Michael Cohen — and even Fox News is calling him out on it.
On “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace confronted Giuliani, who serves as one of President Donald Trump’s attorneys, on his flip-flopping …

Fox News Confronts Rudy Giuliani Over Michael Cohen ‘Liar’ Flip-Flop

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Last week HuffPost reporter Luke O’Brien published a story identifying the woman behind @AmyMek, a massively popular pseudonymous Twitter account followed by people like Sean Hannity, Roseanne Barr, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Ryan Zinke and …

A HuffPost Reporter Was Bombarded With Threats. Twitter Suspended Him.

WASHINGTON ― The world’s largest telecommunications company, an investment firm tied to a Russian oligarch, a pharmaceutical conglomerate and an aircraft manufacturer competing for a government contract all sent money to President Donald Trump’s …

What Did AT&T And Novartis Get For The Money They Paid Trump’s Lawyer?

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address was competently delivered and — for him — relatively inoffensive. The mainstream media and the television pundits will surely deem it to be a presidential moment, representative …

The Hidden Extremism Of Trump’s State Of The Union

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s Republican allies in Congress advanced their monthslong assault on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election on Monday, voting along partisan lines to release a …

House Republicans Vote To Release Classified Memo They Wrote Attacking Russia Probe

WASHINGTON ― Last week, a story by The Hill’s John Solomon set off another firestorm in the conservative media about the ongoing special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The article, which was linked to by The …

Here’s What The FBI Lovers’ Secret Texts Actually Say About Trump, Clinton And Leaks

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that it is time for Republicans to “finally take control” of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and bring an end to a scandal that’s been looming over his presidency …

Republicans Have Dramatically Ramped Up Their Attacks On Russia Probes In 2018

Top Republicans on Sunday used news shows to assure the media and America that President Donald Trump is not on the verge of firing Robert Mueller, the special counsel charged with investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 election and possible …

Top Republicans Say Trump Isn’t About To Fire Mueller. But They Can’t Stop Attacking Him.

FAIRFAX, Va. ― The Democratic Party romped to victories across the country Tuesday, gaining key state legislative seats, two governorships and full control of the state governments of New Jersey and Washington, where they’ll have wide power to enact …

Watch Out, Donald Trump. Here Come The Democrats.

Editor’s Note: Design for Impact is a series spotlighting architectural solutions for communities displaced by the climate crisis, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies. CNN — It’s been another hellish summer. A double whammy of the…

Cities are hotter than ever. Here are 5 things they can do about it

The graphic design industry has gone through seismic shifts since the SVA introduced its first design major in the 1970s, let alone since 1955, when the College introduced its first course in the field, taught by renowned designer George Tscherny.…

SVA Design Leaders on Their Ever-Changing Field

Shattering about creative jobs is clearing space for honest conversations about the state of the sector.

Rewriting romantic myths of the creative industry: WeTransfer Ideas Report

Seventy-five years ago, when former Army pilot Silas H. Rhodes and cartoonist Burne Hogarth founded a career-focused school aimed at returning World War II veterans—known then as the Cartoonists & Illustrators School—there was little indication that…

Famed Designer and SVA Alumnus Paul Davis Designs SVA’s 75th Anniversary Poster

Here’s further evidence to challenge the myth of the starving artist: A new industry survey from the job matching platform Creatively suggests that designers working for American companies in 2022 are commanding an average wage of $88 per hour or…

Artists and designers are now commanding six-figure salaries

After a robust campaign, Te Pati Māori, the political party representing New Zealand’s indigenous Polynesian people, announced it has collected 70,000 signatures on a petition to change the country’s name to “Aotearoa.” That’s enough support to…