When Hurricane Ida hit New York City in 2021, water pipes in Queens were already backed up, and the heavy rain caused severe flooding, killing 11 residents. How do these pipes work, and what made them ...

Since 2018, the American Women's History Initiative Pool has funded more than 200 projects across the Smithsonian, supporting research, collections, and programming that make women's history visible ...

On the fourth day of this year’s Museums of Tomorrow Roundtable (MTR)—a biannual gathering of international museum directors in San Francisco—20 participants filed into a demonstration room at ...

Although organized under a different part of the United States tax code, art museums are still businesses. Hence, like many of our for-profit and nonprofit peers, our institutions’ directors, staff, ...

With the decrease of available public funding for cultural projects and institutions, museums are challenged to prove their relevance and set themselves at the forefront of consumer attractions to ...

Keep up with everything happening in The Commons by signing up for our weekly newsletter. Across the United States, political polarization has deepened to historic levels. In a report published in May ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Native American Heritage Month turns a spotlight on how we treat issues of importance to Indigenous peoples. Below: A ...

Across the United States, political polarization has deepened to historic levels. In a report published in May 2025, the Pew Research Center found that Americans are more divided and less trusting of ...