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Moved by security camera videos of older Asians being viciously attacked in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jacob Azevedo, a young Latino man, offered in an Instagram post to escort anyone in Oakland’s Chinatown who felt unsafe. Others saw the message and wanted to help him: Compassion in Oakland launched in February and has seen volunteer applications grow from hundreds to more than 2,000, and the organization is working to take the initiative to cities across the country. “This [violence] is the worst we have ever seen, but it’s the best response I’ve ever seen myself, because when th...

In South Africa, the gap between who designs buildings and who actually lives in them is one of the widest in the world. About 4 in 5 architects are white, though white South Africans are only about 9% of the population. Less than one-third of architects are women, and just 4% women of color.  The push to change that is part of the country’s overall transformation since the end of apartheid. But it also ties into an international conversation about who gets to design the spaces we move through every day. From Austria to India, city planners have wrestled with how to better accommodate peop...

Cape Canaveral, Florida NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet. The triumph was hailed as a Wright brothers moment. The mini 4-pound copter even carried a bit of wing fabric from the Wright Flyer that made similar history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903. It was a brief hop – just 39 seconds and 10 feet – but accomplished all the major milestones. “Goosebumps. It looks just the way we had tested,” project manager MiMi Aung said as she watc...

Russia’s relations with the West, and the United States in particular, appear to be plumbing depths of acrimony and mutual misunderstanding. Events have cascaded over the past month. Russia’s treatment of imprisoned dissident Alexei Navalny, who has been sent to a prison hospital amid reports of failing health, underlines the differences between Russia and the West over matters of human rights. Meanwhile, a Russian military buildup near Ukraine has illustrated that the conflict might explode at any time. Why We Wrote This With its relations with Washington at a nadir, Russia is eyeing a m...

In a rare example of collaboration between the world’s two largest carbon-gas emitters, China and the U.S. proclaimed their intent to work together to address climate change. The agreement announced Saturday was reached by U.S. special envoy for climate John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua after talks in Shanghai. Mr. Kerry called the deal's language “strong” but cautioned: “We all need to see what happens.”  The two countries produce nearly half of the fossil fuel fumes that are warming the planet’s atmosphere, so their cooperation is seen as key to the success of...