Winter 2022
From new protections for small-dollar loan borrowers to conservation successes from the Carolinas to Australia, Pew worked in 2021 to improve public policy, inform the public, and invigorate civic life.
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are multiplying. To stop them, we must preserve the drugs we have—and find new antibiotics now. Mary Millard lives with an antibiotic-resistant infection, caused by bacteria known as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, that she acquired during heart surgery in 2014.
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Bounded on the north by the Himalayas, east by the Ganges River and Bay of Bengal, west by the otherworldly salt marshes known as the Rann of Kutch, and south by the spice-scented Cardamom Hills, India’s 1.4 billion citizens revere deities as diverse as their nation’s topography: the elephant-headed Ganesha, Allah of Islam, the protector-god Vishnu, Jesus, the Sikhs’ Waheguru, and many more.
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It can be difficult to measure change during challenging years such as 2021, and to know whether we came out better than before. Yet there was progress as well.
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Violinist Randall Mitsuo Goosby performs in “Cycles of My Being,” a song cycle that explores what it means to be a Black man in America today, for Opera Philadelphia in 2021. The performance also appears on Opera Philadelphia’s streaming channel, which launched last fall with classic and new works to engage diverse audiences and artists and broaden the appreciation of opera. Opera Philadelphia received a grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to help recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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