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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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San Francisco Will Pioneer Electric Bike Sharing
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
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Make it by Monday: A DIY Valentine's Day
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
GOOD and Open look at the long lines for public toilets around the globe.
Crime and punishment. Rehabilitation and reform. Correctional facilities. We use these phrases when we talk about prison, but the distance between...
Equal parts art class, violence prevention, and job training, Guns to Roses is transforming young lives. Pouring molten steel into the barrel ...
In case you've been out of the loop during the break: On Sunday, a guy named Maurice Clemmons ambushed and killed four cops in a Washington state...
"Direct democracy" is a blanket term for systems that allow voters to pass or reject laws by voting on "initiatives" and "referenda" at the polls....
That's right, Time's person of the year for 2009 is Ben Bernanke, the "mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve and prevented an economic...
Did you enjoy Obama's unscripted question-and-answer session with House Republicans? Or his bipartisan health care summit? Did you like seeing...
With unemployment up in the double digits, Obama made jobs the main focus of his State of the Union speech. And Fast Company made jobs the main...
Over at the The Washington Post, Annie Lowry imagines various other ways Senate representation could work: Imagine a chamber in which senators...
In his latest column, Tom Friedman suggests we overhaul the way votes are cast and counted: One reason independent, third-party, centrist...
Here, from the fantastic OkCupid blog, is a chart showing how people's political views change as they age. According to their analysis-which...
Reporters Without Borders just released its 2009 Press Freedom Index, a ranking of countries based on how shamelessly they screw with the Fourth...
To deal with young criminals, Northern Ireland has been experimenting with something they call the "Youth Conference." Instead of sending kids who...
It's tax policy time! The Homebuyer Tax Credit (official site here here) gives $8,000 of taxpayers' money to people buying new homes. It was about...
We want to take a moment to salute everyone who has valiantly served our country. Thank you for your service and your sacrifice, and may your...
On Monday, Bill McKibben, the writer, environmentalist, and founder of 350.org (and, let's not forget, GOOD 100 honoree) took to the pages of...
2009: Big year for philandering. Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, a 200-year-old law banning adultery is technically still on the books. According to...
Ten years of conflict and economic chicanery (and a fragile promise of change). The first decade of the third 21st century may not go down as the...
In 2009, Yemen was a hotbed of lawlessness, poverty, veiled women, be-daggered men, and a narcotic called qat. In 2010, Yemen is hotbed of...
America's latest job satisfaction numbers aren't good. To turn them around, workers need to demand more leverage. You've probably been told,...
