Patrick James
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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”
Here's how to bridge the gap between farm and table in low-income communities.
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.
Why can’t we see very well? Reading under the covers certainly didn't help.
The Family Grant program has resulted in Brazil's economic inequality dropping at a faster rate than almost any other country.
Kenyan activists are riffing off the popular music festival to protest Ethiopia’s largest infrastructure project to date.
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.
Tiny is excited by the energy of the Occupy movement, but she is sure that for real change to happen, “the poorest of the poor” need to be heard.
In the video below, Representative Alan Grayson, a Democrat from Florida, introduces the "War Is Making You Poor Act." It limits spending on the...
