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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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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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People Are Awesome: Man Embarks on Year of Random Kindnesses
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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?
Valentino Deng, the central figure in Dave Eggers's What Is the What, is turning the dream of education into a reality for Sudanese...
GOOD and Open look at the long lines for public toilets around the globe.
This is nice: The Wall Street Journal is going to stop using the term "death tax" to describe the estate tax, a tax on inheritance: ...the term...
The more you ignore health care reform, the closer it gets to happening. This weekend, the big important bill passed by a very narrow margin in...
With unemployment up in the double digits, Obama made jobs the main focus of his State of the Union speech. And Fast Company made jobs the main...
Over at the The Washington Post, Annie Lowry imagines various other ways Senate representation could work: Imagine a chamber in which senators...
In his latest column, Tom Friedman suggests we overhaul the way votes are cast and counted: One reason independent, third-party, centrist...
Here, from the fantastic OkCupid blog, is a chart showing how people's political views change as they age. According to their analysis-which...
Reporters Without Borders just released its 2009 Press Freedom Index, a ranking of countries based on how shamelessly they screw with the Fourth...
To deal with young criminals, Northern Ireland has been experimenting with something they call the "Youth Conference." Instead of sending kids who...
It's tax policy time! The Homebuyer Tax Credit (official site here here) gives $8,000 of taxpayers' money to people buying new homes. It was about...
We want to take a moment to salute everyone who has valiantly served our country. Thank you for your service and your sacrifice, and may your...
On Monday, Bill McKibben, the writer, environmentalist, and founder of 350.org (and, let's not forget, GOOD 100 honoree) took to the pages of...
In case you've been out of the loop during the break: On Sunday, a guy named Maurice Clemmons ambushed and killed four cops in a Washington state...
2009: Big year for philandering. Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, a 200-year-old law banning adultery is technically still on the books. According to...
Ten years of conflict and economic chicanery (and a fragile promise of change). The first decade of the third 21st century may not go down as the...
In 2009, Yemen was a hotbed of lawlessness, poverty, veiled women, be-daggered men, and a narcotic called qat. In 2010, Yemen is hotbed of...
America's latest job satisfaction numbers aren't good. To turn them around, workers need to demand more leverage. You've probably been told,...
This map, via Matt Yglesias, shows what it would be like if we divided America into "states" that had roughly equal populations. If each territory...
Obama's State of the Union address is tonight at 9 p.m. EST. You can find links to watch it live on your computer (or your iPhone!) here. If you...
