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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
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Juilliard Brings Online Music Education to the Masses
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today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

As other developed nations see their populations grow older, Americans are bucking the trend and dying earlier.
I've long dreamed of a beautiful marriage between This American Life and infographics, and earlier this year, that came to pass, as a designer...

We need more people to care about human rights, but we can’t take shortcuts.

Tom Walter, the coach of Wake Forest University's baseball team, gave his kidney to save the life of an ill player this week.

As the age of death rises in New York City, the "urban health penalty" myth is dying.

Should this city council member resign after talking about murdering Americans?

No wonder people are so against the Affordable Care Act—they have no clue what's in it.

When the housing bubble burst, a lot of blacks and Latinos took a big hit that's left an extra-wide gulf between them and whites.
Most vacations involve self-deception. We all do it to varying degrees, but to engage in the fantasy of a few days in paradise is to partake in a...
A Twitter sensation skewers the media (and grammar Nazis too). If you've ever been tortured by the APA, MLA, AP, or Chicago Manual of Style...
If You Lived Here, You'd Be Urban By Now: The case against a "walkable urbanism" that is neither walkable nor urban. In December, an...
Did you see Cube? Did it freak you out? Don't live in these apartment buildings.It's been in the works for a while, but today Italian architect...
Caterina Fake is the co-founder of Flickr, and recently launched Hunch, a decision-making website that is powered by the shared intelligence...
Fake blood, for use in real humans, is on it's its way. On Monday, three medical organizations in the United Kingdom announced a joint research...
Andy Bichlbaum, co-founder of the Yes Men and occasional GOOD contributor, was arrested earlier today during a fake press conference for the...
An artist uses a freeway as his canvas, all in the name of public good. The freeway sign arrived in Los Angeles five days after I did. It...

New work from Hypothetical Developments continues to advertise imaginary buildings and call attention to what New Orleans lacks.

But positive memories can cure all ills.

The famous civil rights leader did have a great quote for today's news, but it's probably not the one you've seen.

Twenty-one numeric ways of looking at Donald Trump's flirtation with running for president.
