Patrick James
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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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
With the all-electric Nissan Leaf coming out in December, people are starting to think more about the practicalities of owning an electric car....
How the worker speedup is creating the “womancession”
So.... AG Gonzales did, um, not so well yesterday in his Senate appearance. Even the Republicans really lit into him. Luckily, this man kept track...
It goes something like this: You're in your mid-twenties and you have an albatross around your neck (he's a conflation of your car loan, your...
Portland, Oregon, is a revolutionary kind of town, and so it's not all that surprising to find, downtown near Fremont Street, a building...
"What the world needs is an economic superpower that represents the interests of the world's poor: Call it Pooristan."
Pollution is a global problem, but the costs are paid neighborhood by neighborhood. Now that California has adopted an ambitious,...
So here's something we've been thinking about lately: Given our preoccupation with the economy, what happens to everything else that so...
New data released by the U.S. Census today found that 14 percent of Americans live below the poverty line. This is the highest percentage of...
After the quake, Fonkoze stepped up and took deposits, doling cash out as remittances—all the while keeping the hole in its vault hush-hush.
The Family Grant program has resulted in Brazil's economic inequality dropping at a faster rate than almost any other country.
Oh, dear. Bad news coming out of London and the UN today. Turns out the world's richest nations are acting like, well, the world's richest...
After the preventable death of a 12-year-old boy, a new mobile clinic in Maryland hopes to provide the kind of basic dental care that can save lives.
A new charity project, Live Below the Line, reminds us that pretending to be broke is offensive and unhelpful. Stop doing this.
There are huge gaps in access to AP classes and resources between schools in rich neighborhoods and those in poor ones.
In the video below, Representative Alan Grayson, a Democrat from Florida, introduces the "War Is Making You Poor Act." It limits spending on the...
What would happen if the property taxes from Bel Air paid for the schools in Watts? Next month, my daughter begins first grade at our local...
The playing poor trend is now an art project. Meet Tania Bruguera, who's becoming an illegal immigrant for a year.
A journalist believes poor people shouldn't be able to afford VCRs, so we went shopping to find out if he's right.
College students not used to being asked to study are struggling in the real world.
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