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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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San Francisco Will Pioneer Electric Bike Sharing
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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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?
A new book looks at the surprising and inspiring ways people of all stripes can affect social change. With his new book Actions Speak Loudest,...
A useful word for the proliferation of useless stories. I'm mystified by the harsh treatment of Washington Wizard Gilbert Arenas, whose only...
"New" words that are actually old as dirt. Pop culture sure has a way of spreading new words, like when Stephen Colbert invented "truthiness"...
How tweeting, googling, and McJobs have changed the way we use branded words. When the American Dialect Society met in Baltimore in early...
After quite a long while of hearing about and even owning a copy of Bill McDonough's and Michael Braungart's Cradle to Cradle, I finally got...
Richards Powers wrote his new novel by dictation. Does that affect the quality? Richard Powers' new novel, Generosity, was published this week....
In his new book, Glimmer, journalist Warren Berger tries to explain to the uninitiated what designers have been saying for years: that good...
There's a post on Kottke today with the headline "I don't read books anymore" that has me thinking. As recently as two years ago, I was reading...
At its most basic level, the map is a utilitarian device that clearly explains a given geography. At its most adventurous, the map embodies...
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide...
With J.D. Salinger, how can we separate the author from his writing? And now that he's dead, should we even try? I have written about J.D....
If you know you have cutting edge thoughts, but don't have to time to actually articulate them, you're in luck. FastPencil, a company that helps...
Tina Brown's new imprint will focus on fast books. Can they stack up? Speed writing seems to be the flavor of the week. First we were graced...
When it comes to books, we Americans have author loyalty (I can't wait to read the new Lorrie Moore novel), and bookstore loyalty (I will only...
What we don't know about early America Sometimes I think my conception of Revolutionary America was imprinted on my brain by Schoolhouse Rock,...
Ten years of literary innovation, fudged memoirs, and digital reading. The Aughts saw the birth of readerly social networking, a flowering of...
A holiday shout-out to the Tudors, independent magazines, and charitable giving. I have been going through a Tudor phase. It started when I...
Every morning, my sixth graders were required to choose a book for independent reading. It was the most civilized time of the day, with coats...
More material to help you understand the future of technology and artificial intelligence. The tenth and final post in a GOOD miniseries on...
