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Environment
Help Make Our Next Magazine: The Energy Issue
We are planning out next issue and we want your help! Hear about what the magazine will tackle, and let us know in the comments what we're missing.
Lifestyle
The Food Gods Speak: Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser Dish About Walmart, National Security, and Chicken Nuggets
When Pollan last ate a chicken nugget, whether Schlosser thinks that Walmart's new healthy food initiatives are for real, and what you and I can do.
Lifestyle
Since 1995, GOP Congresspeople Have Received More Than $5 Million in Farm Subsidies
Democrats have received less than a tenth of that. But the debate over farm subsidies is complicated.
Business
Hunting Gazelles: Figuring Out What Makes Companies—and Jobs—Grow
A disproportionate share of jobs are created not by big or small business, but by fast-growing new businesses dubbed "gazelles."
Environment
83 Percent of Americans Want Clean Energy Legislation
A new Gallup poll suggests that more Americans agree on a bill that supports solar and other "alternative" energy sources than any other policy idea.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Synthesizing Food Safety Politics Into Something Edible
Helena Bottemiller makes sense of U.S. food policy—and shares a behind-the-scenes peek at the preparations for a White House State Dinner.
Environment
OptimistiCartography: Every State is Good at Something
An infographic that lists something—from PhDs to teen pregnancies—that each state has or produces more of than its forty-nine rivals.
The Community Board
Vote to Support a Social Enterprise Startup!
I am writing to ask you all to support PublicStuff, a social enterprise start-up that I am launching this year with the help of some other great...
The Community Board
Shanghai Promoting 2-Child Families
According to a Reuters newswire report filed today, Shanghai is now urging couples to have two children in order to counter an aging population...
Education
Teachers Take to the Streets: Education Reform After the SOS March
The march may be over, but the battle for public education is just getting started.
News
EPA Finally Says Hormones in Water Are Worth Doing Something About
The EPA is finally-finally!-considering cracking down on some of the other pharmaceuticals, chemicals and (ew) hormones that contaminate our...
The Community Board
Policies Contributing to More Robust Climate Risk Disclosure
In response to an absence of voluntary disclosure, major policy decisions are helping to provide investors with the information they need to make...
News
Do You Think International Policy Makers Should Prioritize Access to Abortion for All Women?
The Heroin Stamp Art Show Opens in New York
Several months ago we told you about this innovative public-health and art show that needed some microdonor support via Kickstarter to get off...
