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Medical News The death of Chokwe Lumumba was a tough blow to the civil rights community. The Jackson, Mississippi mayor was considered to be one of the great civil rights activists of his time and ...

Amy Goodman:"Are any plastics safe?" That's the title - that's the question of a new exposé by Mother Jones that may shock anyone who drinks out of plastic bottles, gives their children plastic ...

Did you know that making college tuition-free would cost less than what we already spend on the patchwork of financial aid programs we currently support? According to a recent accounting taken by ...

For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated, competitive free market. Given the tendency of networked industries to lapse into monopoly-think of AT&T's 70-year hold over ...

Transition to 100% wind, water, and solar for all purposes. The Solutions Project is a group of top scientists, visionary business leaders and cultural influencers with a mission of accelerating the

Every individual philanthropist has a different giving strategy. But as we have discussed before, there are some overarching trends that can be sussed out, even among philanthropists in different ...

Image credit: Elien van Riet. When I quit my job as a corporate strategist in 2004 to pursue a new life based on sharing and collaboration, it was not the result of any external observation. It was

Space junk has been a problem since space travel began: When Sputnik launched in 1957, it left behind part of a rocket. Now, decades later, hundreds of thousands of marble-sized pieces of satellites

Gayle McLaughlin, the bold mayor of Richmond, California, has gone where no woman dared go before, threatening to take underwater mortgages by eminent domain from Wall Street banks and renegotiate ...