
We profiled Father Greg Boyle in the latest issue of GOOD. He started Homeboy Industries in Boyle Heights, L.A., to create businesses that would...

The 34th G8 Summit, which brought together the leaders of the world's eight richest industrialized democracies, wrapped up today. Here's what...

Next week, President Obama will join eight prime ministers, 11 presidents, one chancellor, one king, and a smattering of international...

An energy- and money-saving solution that pretty much everyone can get behind: three-day weekends.
Workers of the world, unite in giving Utah a...

A fenced-off block in downtown Pittsburgh made opaque by a huge wraparound sheet has been rumored to be the designated internment area for...

Naked chef Jamie Oliver will be cooking a meal for Obama and his head-of-state friends. He promises to serve the "best of British food"-which begs...

I think I speak for everyone when I say that G. Gordon Liddy deserves some sort of award for raising the dialogue in this country to heights never...

Would you like to drive a car powered by urine? Of course you would. Not only is it an awesomely efficient concept, but, according to Gas2.org,...

When environmentalists first caught wind of Apple's iPad, they heralded the full-media platform for its potential to replace a host of home...

Yesterday, Pittsburgh native Liana Maneese was trying to get to a meeting in East Liberty for an organization called GET Larimer (short for Green...

Today at Slate, Adrian Chen assembles a video exploring the ludicrous lack of death in the animated series G.I. Joe, which, you'll remember, is...

The public is not happy about the $165 million in retention bonuses that A.I.G. employees got last Friday. A.I.G. claimed that, even though it...

Jeff Masters is a founder of and Director of Meteorology for the internet’s oldest– and my favorite– weather website. But before creating the...

Missed the fanfare around last month's G20 Summit in Seoul? Another gathering of world leaders, another squandered opportunity. Right? Maybe not.

Rapper Christoper Wallace was murdered 14 years ago today. He dropped out of school in 1989, and his Brooklyn high school is still a dropout factory.

10 Questions is a new forum for grilling presidential candidates. It's working like this: 1) Anyone submits a video question for the candidates....

Since every single news outlet in the country is harping on it, we figure we can devote even more time to the question of superdelegates, because,...

In our Water issue, William Wheeler wrote about the potential water conflict brewing between India and Pakistan. Here, in another dispatch, he...

We hate to be all Slate-centric, but some of these stories are simply too good to resist. You may know Slate's regular column the Explainer (one...

Forget the 100-mile diet: James McWilliams has other ideas of what it means to eat responsibly.
Since 2005, when four women drew a 100-mile...