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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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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 media is buzzing with news of Obama's speech at Cairo University this morning. Obama's basic message to Muslims (and everyone with a stake in...

Here's the full text of the State of the Union speech, for your reference.

Boss won't let you watch TV at work? That's OK: Here's the big budget speech you just missed.
President Barack Obama delivered a sober speech upon accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Thursday (video after the jump). Speaking with grace...
There's an interesting story over at CNN.com, which discusses the degree of difficulty in President Barack Obama's speech to the country on...

In his speech yesterday at the Tucson memorial service, President Obama eschewed politics and called for unity. Watch and read it here.
Fox News may have gotten itself in hot water over some selective editing, much like they did a few months ago when they edited clips from a large...

The president said a "massacre" in Benghazi "was not in our national interest."

Watching Obama’s speech as a foreigner in Egypt, I fear that his professed support for Arab activists is an empty promise.
In the midst of a sweepingly dismissive critical response to Obama's Oval Office speech Tuesday evening, David Roberts took a closer look and...
A few months ago, we published one of our GOOD Sheets on the first 100 days of all the presidents since FDR, examining the major actions taken...

The father of microfinance has been "removed" by his government. But he's not leaving his Nobel Prize-winning Grameen Bank just yet.
Barack Obama has a big-time Abraham Lincoln obsession. The President-elect's inaugural festivities are stunning proof of that: He'll take his oath...

Change.org is calling on the Obama administration to appoint an LGBT youth advisor. We imagine a typical day for the lucky liaison.
Father Greg Boyle wants to stop the causes of gang violence, instead of waiting to clean up the results.
George Washington, revisited in this You Tube video. Apparently, he was much more interesting than we ever knew. Once he barricaded British...
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...
Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, died of cancer today, April 16, at the age of 90. Lorenz was the first to formalize the idea that tiny...

