- October 19, 2009 • 11:56 am PDT
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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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The Tricky Calculus of Setting a Price for MIT's Online Courses
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Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
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Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases

Groupon started out as a site to help fundraise and organize for social causes. Will it honor that legacy as it becomes a $15 billion company?

We've started brainstorming ideas for the next issue of the magazine, and like we've done twice before, we're asking for your help. This time,...

As part of the war effort, an aircraft worker checks electrical assemblies at the Vega Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California, in June, 1942.

Israel's army shows us we have to fight discrimination by changing attitudes, not just laws.

Through video and interviews, hear from some of the brightest and most innovative teachers about how student achievement is changing in the classroom.
MIT political science professor Charles Stewart III discusses electronic voting systems, and whether we can expect trouble this time...

Who says there aren't jobs? We're hiring for 11 positions at the moment. Details inside.

Many organic farmers don't have the option of using exclusively organic seed. Organic Seed Growers Conference attendees want to fix that.
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the amount we pay in taxes relative to income is at an historic low: Federal, state and local taxes...
Over at The Washington Post's Answer Sheet blog, guest blogger and University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham unfurled, over...

Installing water pumps in the developing world is great, but nonprofits often forget to make sure they're still working. FLOW provides a solution.

RV parks, as it turns out, already have EV-ready, high-output electrical connections. Electric car enthusiasts rejoice?

Doctors are planning a massive strike in Czechoslovakia that could cripple the country's health care system. They haven't had a raise in a decade.

Citizens United didn't change campaign politics that much, but it did expose how unsavory the nexus of politics and money have become.

Vivian Maier spent her life snapping thousands of amazing photographs. The world is just finding out.

There are more people forced into labor today than at any point in human history. Let's change that.
As the war in Afghanistan winds down, our attacks in Pakistan are increasing. See how many people we are targeting with the unmanned aircraft program.
Not that anyone on this particular site would ever leave a non-erudite, non-productive comment, but obnoxious comments are quite rampant around...
Sonia Sotomayor is going to be confirmed as our newest Supreme Court justice. There's little doubt about that-the votes are there. But Congress is...
Fast Company followed up on a 2008 story it ran on D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee with a short item in its February issue. Noting that...