- December 16, 2008 • 3:32 pm PST
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A look at the major international and civil conflicts currently erupting around the world.
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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What the 2.4-Cent Penny Says About America's Budget Problem
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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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The Tricky Calculus of Setting a Price for MIT's Online Courses
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Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
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Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

Four years after police found a horrific dog-fighting ring at Vick's home in Virginia, the property is becoming a rehab center for abused dogs.
U.S. Army enlistment rates from the Revolutionary War to today.
Thanks to the Internet, information and anger can spread at the speed of light. Don't like a certain company's environmental policy? Not getting a...
If you haven't read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, seeing the new documentary Food Fight, which features Pollan, along with Alice Waters...
Karl Marx argued that the underlying cause of all wars was competition for resources. Oil may have been the impetus of many Western forays...
An interview with author Jonathan Safran Foer about factory farms, vegetarianism, and Eating Animals. design mind on GOOD is a series exploring...
You really must check out LittleSis, a new crowd-sourced website that documents the relationships of the people in power (the collective "Big...
A new color scheme for our roads and highways could take some of the heat off Earth's climate. You may not have given it much thought, but your...
Seafood purveyors who offer up only sustainable fish species.In 1994, Henry and Lisa Lovejoy smelled something fishy when they saw juvenile tuna...
Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Oscar Morales. From Obama's campaign fundraising to the election protests in Iran, we've...
Earlier today, Morning Joe featured a clip from Parks and Recreation, where kids in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana are "beefy, husky, big...
In its effort to digitize absolutely everything, the internet behemoth Google has found an unlikely opponent: the National Library of Wales....

Galina Tachieva, author of The Sprawl Repair Manual, rethinks the suburbs-from empty big box retailers to bubble era McMansions.

An update from a friend and ally of GOOD from 350.org at the U.N. climate talks in Bangkok.

Quantifying the fight against childhood obesity.
When Japan renounced the military as an instrument of foreign policy, they weren't thinking about aliens.Well Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba, for...
Barcelona is stuck in its worst drought in decades. To quench the parched city, Spain is looking into buying boatloads (literally) of water from...
Paolo Pedercini's experimental game, "Every Day The Same Dream," challenges players to escape the dreariness of the working world. When the...
Last night, President Obama received one of his loudest ovations when he said that "the best anti-poverty program around is a world-class...
Prompted in part by Annie Leonard's new video "The Story of Bottled Water," the International Bottled Water Association released a video of their...