
There's a seismic shift in how large companies they are envisioning their own internal real estate. That shift is toward mobility.

House Commerce Chair Fred Upton wants to keep the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. Turns out it's not a popular idea. With anyone, really.

Thanks to fair trade regulations, children and villages that are part of the cocao industry benefit from a sweeter deal.

Eric Cantor's new plan to save money involves forcing students to begin paying back school loans before they've even graduated.
Here, via Ezra Klein, is an incredibly entertaining video of the U.S. soccer fans at Captain Jack's Bar in Lincoln, Nebraska, reacting to Landon...
Hat tip to Julie's Health Club blog over at The Chicago Tribune, which pointed to a collaboration between Whole Foods and the Food, Family,...

This week, Mixology Mailbag helps newly-minted drinkers stock up before they drink up.
Freemasons, Bilderberg, Skull and Bones-what do they actually do? Matt Schwartz peels back the curtains of the world's top secret societies.

Rolling blackouts, asthma attacks and cost-benefit analysis, oh my!
The drunkest cities in America. Milwaukee's baseball team isn't called the Brewers for nothing.

Mitsyuki Ikeda has invented a new way of making hamburger. He extracts proteins and fats from "sewage mud."

Each month, we challenge our community to do something that will improve the world around us—and our own lives. September's challenge? To connect.
So BP has finished building the first of three huge steel domes that it's hoping to drop down on top of the oil leaks on the ocean floor. Here's a...

A City Year Los Angeles corps member discusses the importance of going back to basics with struggling readers.

A new survey reveals that Rick Santorum's anti-college statements are out of touch with most Americans.
Global Voices, defenders of free speech online, have launched a new tool called Threatened Voices that lets you look up where bloggers have...

I'll say it on behalf of tall women everywhere: Don't stoop to the haters' level.

Arnesia Banks, a senior at Gary Comer College Prep, on how she beat the odds.
The days of "learning to love learning" may be behind us. These days, education reformers are coalescing around a kitchen sink approach to...
You should vote because no matter whose confetti gets tossed in November, D.C.'s favorite pastime will never change: drinking too much and arguing...


